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)
People's Liberation Army 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
German Navy
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
- Aleksandrit-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—1918) convoy sloops intended originally for minesweeping
- Hunt-class, Belvoir group (20 ships, launched 1916—1917) Ailsa twin-screw coastal minesweeping sloops
- Hunt-class, Aberdare group (87 ships, launched 1917—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—1918) paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops
- Halcyon-class (7 reciprocating and 14 turbine ships, launched 1933—1939) twin-screw minesweeping sloops
- Bangor-class (14 ships, launched 1940—1942) diesel twin-screw single-role minesweeping sloops
- Blyth-class (Bangor-class II) (19 ships, launched 1940—1943) reciprocating Bangor variant
- Ardrossan-class (Bangor-class III) (26 ships, launched 1940—1942) turbine Bangor variant
- Bathurst-class (47 ships, launched 1940—1943 only served with the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Indian Navy) Australian Bangor variant
- MMS-class (403 ships, launched 1940—1945) inshore acoustic / magnetic motor minesweepers
- Algerine-class (98 ships, launched 1941—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—1943) British Yard acoustic / magnetic motor minesweepers
- Ton-class (116 ships, launched 1952—1959) open-water minesweepers, minehunters and mine countermeasures vessels
- Ham-class (93 ships, launched 1954—1959) inshore minesweepers
- Ley-class (10 ships, launched 1952—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—1988) mine countermeasures vessels
- Venturer-class (2 ships, purchased 1979) deep-water single-role minesweepers
- River-class (12 ships, launched 1982—1985) deep-water single-role minesweepers
- Sandown-class (12 ships, launched 1990—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