Dance class minesweeper
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| Class overview |
| Name: |
Dance class |
| In service: |
1917-1920 |
| Completed: |
14 |
| Lost: |
2 |
| Retired: |
12 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: |
minesweeper |
| Displacement: |
265 long tons (269 t) - 290 long tons (295 t) |
| Length: |
130 ft (40 m) |
| Beam: |
26 ft (7.9 m) - 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Machinery: Vertical compound
Boilers: Cylindrical
I.H.P. 450 |
| Speed: |
9.25 knots (10.64 mph; 17.13 km/h) - 10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Range: |
37-41.5 tons oil |
| Complement: |
22-26 men |
| Armament: |
1 x 3pdr except:
- 1 x 12 pdr + 1 x 6 pdr (Gavotte)
- 1 x 6 pdr AA (Step Dance)
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The Dance class minesweepers were originally designed as a shallow-draft twin-screw tunnel tugs, and were taken over by the Admiralty as coastal minesweeping sloops. They were completed between November 1917 and September 1918 under the Emergency War Programme.
Ships
- Cotillion - October 1917; Used to sweep coast of Flanders. Sold in May 1920. Builder: Day, Summers (265 tons)
- Coverley - October 1917; Used to sweep coast of Flanders. Sold in May 1920. Builder: Ferguson Bros.(265 tons)
- Fandango - April 1919; Used to sweep coastal areas of Northern Russia. Mined and sunk 3 July 1919.
- Gavotte - December 1917;Used to sweep coast of Flanders. Given back to War Office in 1920. Builder: Goole Co.
- Hornpipe - October 1917; Used to sweep coast of Flanders. Sold in May 1920. Builder: Murdoch & Murray. (265 tons)
- Mazurka - October 1917; Used to sweep coast of Flanders. Sold in May 1920. Builder: Murdoch & Murray. (265 tons)
- Minuet - October 1917; Used to sweep coast of Flanders. Sold in May 1920. Builder: Day, Summers (265 tons)
- Morris Dance - April 1919; Used to sweep coastal areas of Northern Russia. Sold in May 1920.
- Pirouette - December 1917; Used to sweep coast of Flanders. Given back to War Office in 1920. Builder: Rennie Forrest
- Quadrille - October 1917; Used to sweep coast of Flanders. Sold in May 1920. Builder: Ferguson Bros. (265 tons)
- Sarabande - December 1917; Used to sweep coast of Flanders. Given back to War Office in 1920. Builder: Goole Co.
- Step Dance - April 1919; Used to sweep coastal areas of Northern Russia. Sold in May 1920.
- Sword Dance - April 1919; Used to sweep coastal areas of Northern Russia. Mined and sunk 24 June 1919.
- Tarantella - December 1917; Used to sweep coast of Flanders. Builder: Hamilton
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