List of minesweeper classes

This is a list of minesweeper and minehunter classes

Argentine Navy

 * Ton-class

Royal Australian Navy

 * Ton-class
 * Bay-class minehunter - (1986-2001)
 * Huon-class minehunter - active

Belgian Navy

 * Aggressive-class minesweeper
 * Tripartite-class minehunter

Brazilian Navy

 * Aratu-class minesweeper
 * River-class minesweeper

Bulgarian Navy

 * Tripartite-class minehunter

Canadian Navy

 * Fundy-class minesweeper
 * Bay-class minesweeper
 * Anticosti-class minesweeper
 * Kingston''-class coastal defence vessel' (Active)

PR China Navy

 * Wochi-class (Type 081) minehunter
 * Wozang-class (Type 082II) minehunter
 * Wolei-class minelayer
 * Type 010 class oceangoing minesweeper
 * T-43-class oceangoing minesweeper
 * Wosao-class (Type 082) minesweeper
 * Type 529 minsweeper
 * Fushun-class coastal minesweeper modified Shanghai-II class gunboat for minesweeping, all in reserve and being scrapped.
 * Futi-class (Type 312) minesweeper / minesweeping drone
 * Type 058 minsweeper
 * Type 7102 minesweeper
 * Type 057K minesweeper

Danish Navy

 * Flyvefisken-class patrol vessels (fitted for MCM-operations)
 * Holm class multirole boats (fitted for remote controlled mine sweeping)
 * MSF class drone minehunters
 * MRD class drone minehunters

Egyptian Navy

 * Yurka-class minesweeper
 * Osprey-class coastal minehunter

Estonian Navy

 * Sandown-class minehunter
 * Lindau-class minesweeper

Finnish Navy

 * Katanpää class mine countermeasure vessel
 * Kuha class minesweeper
 * Kiiski class minesweeper

French Navy

 * Tripartite-class minehunter

Kriegsmarine

 * R boat
 * M-class

Bundesmarine

 * Lindau-class minesweeper
 * Frankenthal-class mine hunter
 * Kulmbach-class mine hunter
 * Ensdorf-class minesweeper
 * Mühlhausen minesweeper

Greek Navy

 * Hunt-class MCMV
 * Osprey-class coastal minehunter

Indian Navy

 * Pondicherry -class minesweeper
 * Mahé-class minesweeper

Italian Navy

 * Lerici-class minehunter
 * Gaeta-class minehunter

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

 * Yaeyama-class minesweeper

Latvian Navy

 * Tripartite-class minehunter

Malaysian Navy

 * Lerici-class minehunter

Netherlands Navy

 * A-class minesweeper
 * M-class minesweeper
 * Tripartite-class minehunter

Nigerian Navy

 * Lerici-class minehunter

Norwegian Navy

 * Aggressive-class minesweeper
 * Sauda-class MCMV
 * Alta-class minesweeper
 * Oksøy-class mine hunter

Pakistan Navy

 * Tripartite-class minehunter

Polish Navy

 * T43-class minesweeper
 * Projekt 206FM class minehunter

Russian Navy / Soviet Navy

 * T43-class minesweeper
 * T58-class minesweeper
 * Yurka-class minesweeper
 * Natya-class minesweeper
 * Gorya-class minesweeper
 * Sasha-class minesweeper
 * Vanya-class minesweeper
 * Zhenya-class minesweeper
 * Sonya-class minesweeper
 * Yevgenya-class minesweeper

Royal Saudi Navy

 * Sandown-class minehunter

South African Navy

 * Ton-class minesweeper
 * Lindau-class minesweeper

Spanish Navy

 * Segura-class mine countermeasures vessel

Singapore Navy

 * Bedok-class mine countermeasures vessel

Swedish Navy

 * Landsort-class mine countermeasures vessel
 * Styrsö-class mine countermeasures vessel

Turkish Navy

 * A-class minehunter

United Kingdom

 * Flower-class (112 ships in 4 sub-classes, launched 1914&mdash;1918) convoy sloops intended originally for minesweeping
 * Hunt-class, Belvoir group (20 ships, launched 1916&mdash;1917) Ailsa twin-screw coastal minesweeping sloops
 * Hunt-class, Aberdare group (87 ships, launched 1917&mdash;1919) Admiralty twin-screw coastal minesweeping sloops
 * Dance-class (14 ships, launched 1917-1919) tunnel-screw coastal minesweeping sloops
 * Racecourse-class (32 ships in 2 sub-classes, launched 1916&mdash;1918) paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops
 * Halcyon-class (7 reciprocating and 14 turbine ships, launched 1933&mdash;1939) twin-screw minesweeping sloops
 * Bangor-class (14 ships, launched 1940&mdash;1942) diesel twin-screw single-role minesweeping sloops
 * Blyth-class (Bangor-class II) (19 ships, launched 1940&mdash;1943) reciprocating Bangor variant
 * Ardrossan-class (Bangor-class III) (26 ships, launched 1940&mdash;1942) turbine Bangor variant
 * Bathurst-class (47 ships, launched 1940&mdash;1943 only served with the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Indian Navy) Australian Bangor variant
 * MMS-class (403 ships, launched 1940&mdash;1945) inshore acoustic / magnetic motor minesweepers
 * Algerine-class (98 ships, launched 1941&mdash;1945) twin-screw multi-role minesweeping sloops
 * Catherine-class (22 ships, transferred from the US Navy in 1941 under the Lend-Lease program) twin-screw multi-role minesweeping sloops
 * BYMS-class (150 ships, launched 1941&mdash;1943) British Yard acoustic / magnetic motor minesweepers
 * Ton-class (116 ships, launched 1952&mdash;1959) open-water minesweepers, minehunters and mine countermeasures vessels
 * Ham-class (93 ships, launched 1954&mdash;1959) inshore minesweepers
 * Ley-class (10 ships, launched 1952&mdash;1955) inshore minehunters
 * Wilton class (1 ship, launched 18 January 1972) open-water minesweeper and minehunter. Prototype ship built in Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) to same hull design as Ton Class and forerunner of Hunt and Sandown Classes also constructed in GRP.
 * Hunt-class (13 ships, launched 1978&mdash;1988) mine countermeasures vessels
 * Venturer-class (2 ships, purchased 1979) deep-water single-role minesweepers
 * River-class (12 ships, launched 1982&mdash;1985) deep-water single-role minesweepers
 * Sandown-class (12 ships, launched 1990&mdash;2001) single-role minehunters

United States

 * Auk-class minesweeper
 * Admirable-class minesweeper
 * Adroit-class minesweeper
 * Aggressive-class minesweeper
 * Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship - active
 * Hawk-class minesweeper
 * Kite-class minesweeper
 * Lapwing-class minesweeper
 * Osprey-class coastal minehunter
 * YMS-1-class minesweeper

Vietnam People's Navy

 * Yurka-class minesweeper
 * Sonya-class minesweeper
 * Yevgenya-class minesweeper