The ship was one of a 30-unit series of minesweepers in 1915 that was built by various shipyards in 1915/16. The M 42 was built by Vulcan in Bremen in 1916 and completed on September 22nd of that year. In 1922 it was handed over to North German Lloyd and converted into the steam ferry Nymphe with its home port in Bremen and a measurement of 385 gross tons. In 1923 the ferry was sold to Camille Blanc in Nice , who renamed it La Nymphe and sold it to the Viscount Le Guales de Mezaubran in 1924. In 1930, the Société Anonyme des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers de Monaco acquired the ship, which was initially still based in Nice. In 1934 the home port moved to Monaco.
After the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the French Navy initially took over the ship and used it as an auxiliary minesweeper AD 204 . In 1940 the ship was confiscated by German troops and in May 1944 it was put into service by the Kriegsmarine as a replacement for the Kehrwieder as a mine-laying nymph . The nymph was used south of La Spezia and in the Gulf of Genoa . After the ship had completed its last task of mining the port of Genoa, it was sunk there by the crew in April 1945.
Web links
Data of the ship at Miramar Ship Index (English, registration required)
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