In Service: 6 September 1941 to 23 July 1952
Ordered:
Builder: F.
Schichau GmbH, Elbing
Construction No: 1437
Laid down:
Launched: 9 November 1940
Commissioned: 6 September 1941
Type: 1938 Type Minesweeper/Minensuchboot
Class: M 25 Class
Displacement: 713 tons standard 908 tons full load
Length: 71 m
Beam: 9.2 m
Draft: 2.12 m
Propulsion: 2 × Lentz uniform expansion engines
producing up to 3,200 shp
Propellers: 2 × Voith-Schneider
Speed: 18.1 knots
Range: 5,000 nautical miles at 10 knots
Crew: 90 men and officers
Armament:
2 × 10.5 cm L/45
carried 480 rounds
3 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 6000 rounds
30 mines
Armour 10 mm
Aircraft:
Electronics:
Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants:
Other: Minesweepers
Articles:
The M 35 Minesweeper (Minensuchboot) was built in the 1940s
by
F.
Schichau GmbH shipyard located in Elbing, 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 thirteen watertight
compartments and a double bottom. 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.
6 September 1941
The Minesweeper M 35 is commissioned.
1941
The Minesweeper M 35 served with the following flotilla's
5. Minensuchflottille and 6. Minensuchflottille.
1945
The Minesweeper M 35 is seized as a prize of war by the USA.
1945
The Minesweeper M 35 serves with the
German
Mine Sweeping Administration (GMSA).
9 October 1947
The Minesweeper M 35 is transferred to France and renamed
Bapaume.
23 July 1952
The Bapaume is stricken from naval records and broken up and
scrapped.
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
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