M 202

Minesweeper

Service Data

In Service: 3 April 1941 to 27 June 1951

Production Data

Ordered:
Builder: AG Neptun, Rostock
Construction No: 495
Laid down:
Launched: 29 September 1940
Commissioned: 3 April 1941

Technical Data

Type: 1935/39 Type Minesweeper/Minensuchboot
Class: M 1 Class

Displacement: 685 tons standard 878 tons full load
Length: 68.4 m
Beam: 8.7 m
Draft: 2.65 m
Propulsion: 2 × Lentz uniform expansion engines producing up to 3,200 shp
Propellers: 2
Speed: 18.3 knots
Range: 5,000 nautical miles at 10 knots
Crew: 90 men and officers
Armament:
2 × 10.5 cm L/45
carried 480 rounds
2 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30
carried 3000 rounds
2 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 4000 rounds
4 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30 after 1942
carried 6000 rounds
30 mines
Armour 10 mm
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Operators: Kriegsmarine
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Other: Minesweepers
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History

The M 202 Minesweeper (Minensuchboot) was built in the 1940s by AG Neptun shipyard located in Rostock, Germany as a minesweeper or escort vessel for the Kriegsmarine.

Construction was longitudinal and ransverse frame of steel construction, which was partly welded, this vessel also had twelve watertight compartments and a double bottom. The superstructure, Bridge etc was made from light alloys. The propulsion system installed in these vessels was the two Lentz uniform expansion engines. And when used as minesweepers the Kabel Fern Raum Gerät (KFRG) system was employed, which used generators producing 60 V, 20 kW to power the magnetic sweeping gear.

This vessel went on to serve in the 5. Minensuchflottille and 6. Minensuchflottille during World War II.

And after the surrender of Germany was employed in the German Mine Sweeping Administration (GMSA) which was controlled by the allies.

Career

3 April 1941
The Minesweeper M 202 is commissioned.

1941
The Minesweeper M 202 served with the following flotilla's 5. Minensuchflottille and 6. Minensuchflottille.

1945
The Minesweeper M 202 is seized as a prize of war by the USA.

1945
The Minesweeper M 202 serves with the German Mine Sweeping Administration (GMSA).

9 October 1947
The Minesweeper M 202 is transferred to France and renamed Craonne.

27 June 1951
The Craonne is stricken from naval records and broken up and scrapped.

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Sources

German Warships, 1815-1945: Major Surface Vessels.
ISBN-10: 0851775330

German Warships, 1815-1945: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels.
ISBN-10: 155750301X

German warships of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0668040378

For a complete list of sources