NAVYPEDIA

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M39 1916 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

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)

Technical data

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

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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.

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