SMS M85
M85 in Kriegsmarine service | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| German Empire | |
| Name | SMS M85 |
| Builder | Nordseewerke, Emden |
| Yard number | 110 |
| Launched | 10 April 1918 |
| Commissioned | 3 August 1918 |
| Germany (Weimar Republic) | |
| Name | M85 |
| Nazi Germany | |
| Name | M85 |
| Fate | Sunk 1 October 1939 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | M1916 type minesweeper |
| Displacement | 553 t (544 long tons) deep load |
| Length | 59.30 m (194 ft 7 in) o/a |
| Beam | 7.40 m (24 ft 3 in) |
| Draught | 2.2–2.3 m (7 ft 3 in – 7 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft reciprocating steam engines, 2 coal-fired boilers, 1,850 ihp (1,380 kW) |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Range | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
| Complement | 40 |
| Armament | |
SMS M85 was a M1916 type minesweeper built for the Imperial German Navy during the First World War by the Emden shipyard Nordseewerke, being launched on 10 April 1918 and entering service on 2 October that year. M85 survived the remainder of the war, and was passed on to the Reichsmarine, the navy of the Weimar Republic and then to the Nazi German Kriegsmarine. The outbreak of the Second World War saw M85 supporting the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, and she was sunk by a Polish mine on 1 October 1939 in one of the last acts of the Polish campaign.