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Dance class minesweeper The White Ensign of the Royal Navy.
General characteristics
Displacement: 290 tons
Length: 130 ft (o.a.)
Beam: 26 - 27 ft
Draught:
Propulsion: Machinery: Vertical compound. Boilers: Cylindrical
Range: 37-41.5 tons oil.
Speed: I.H.P. 450 = 9.25 - 10 knots
Complement: 22-26 men
Armament: Gavotte, 1 - 12 pdr., 1 - 6 pdr.
Step Dance, 1 - 6 pdr. AA
rest 1 - 3 pdr.

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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