Dance-class minesweeper

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 × 3-pounder except: 1 × 12-pounder + 1 × 6-pounder (Gavotte) 1 × 6-pounder AA (Step Dance)

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

External links

Photograph of Quadrille, British Navy - Dance Class vessel

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