"M85" survived the remaining three months of the First World War. While the majority of the ships of the Imperial German Navy were interned at Scapa Flow and were scuttled on 21 June 1919, the German Navy's minesweepers remained under its control, although disarmed, as they were needed to help clear the extensive minefields in the North and Baltic Seas. When the Weimar Republic established the "Reichsmarine", with its size constrained by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, "M85" was one of the ships taken over by the new navy. In 1931, "M85" was noted as being in reserve.