In Service: 18 September 1942 to 8 April 1974
Ordered:
Builder: Lübecker
Maschinenbau Gesellschaft, Lübeck
Construction No: 431
Laid down:
Launched: 6 December 1941
Commissioned: 18 September 1942
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
Aircraft:
Electronics:
Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants:
Other: Minesweepers
Articles:
The M 85 Minesweeper (Minensuchboot) was built in the 1940s
by
Lübecker
Maschinenbau Gesellschaft shipyard located in Lübeck,
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 6. Minensuchflottille and 7. 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.
18 September 1942
The Minesweeper M 85 is commissioned.
1942
The Minesweeper M 85 served with the following flotilla's
6. Minensuchflottille and 7. Minensuchflottille.
1945
The Minesweeper M 85 is seized as a prize of war by the British.
1945
The Minesweeper M 85 serves with the
German
Mine Sweeping Administration (GMSA).
9 October 1947
The Minesweeper M 85 is transferred to France and renamed
Yser.
21 December 1956
The Yser is stricken from naval records and used as the hulk
Q 78.
12 February 1957
The Q 78 is renamed to Brummer whilst serving with the German
Federal Navy (Bundesmarine) and is removed from active service.
5 October 1963
The Brummer is used as a navigation training vessel.
9 June 1966
The Brummer is once again used as a hulk.
8 April 1974
The Brummer is broken up and scrapped at Kiel.
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
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