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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

AD204 minesweeper (1916/1939)

M42 1918

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
AD204 (ex-M42)   604 Vulcan, Bremen, Germany 1915 11.8.1916 9.1916 // 1939 captured by Germany 1940 (Nymphe)

 

Displacement standard, t

480

Displacement full, t

507

Length, m

56.1 wl 58.4 oa

Breadth, m

7.30

Draught, m

2.25

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

1800

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

coal 115

Endurance, nm(kts) 2000(14)

Armament

2 x 1 - 105/42 Tbts L/45 C/16, 30 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

 

Project history: Former German minesweeper M42 of 1915 type was sold mercantile in 1920 but requisitioned by the French navy in 1939.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: AD204 was captured by Germans in 1940 and served in the Kriegsmarine as minesweeper (later minelayer) M42, renamed Nymphe in 1944.

M39 1916

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

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