One cylindrical boiler and one set triple-expansion engine generated an output of 550 hp, giving her a top speed of 11 knots.

Following Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918, the vessel was ceded to France as a war prize in 1920 under the terms of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and renamed Aurore.

However, she was decommissioned five years later and sold for merchant service to the Romanian Danube Navigation Company (SRD - Societate Anonima Româna de Navigatie pe Dunare), Bucharest.

[2] In 1937, she was requisitioned by the Romanian Navy and underwent an extensive refit at the Galați shipyard, until 1939, when she was recommissioned as a minelayer.

[3] Aurora laid her first mine barrage in the morning of 30 June, off Sulina, during the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia .