HM Ships from As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships for 1919

Index
24 Class
Flower
Q Boat Flowers
Birds
Dance
Later Hunt
Early Hunt
Imp Racecourse
Racecourse
3 Misc Sweepers
Gunboats fitted as Sweepers

As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919

British Navy - Tunnel Mine-Sweepers

Dance Class - 12 Boats

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QUADRILLE. Photo, McClure, Macdonald

MORRIS DANCE (--/--/--), STEP DANCE (--/--/--), builders not known
GAVOTTE (Mar., 1918), and SARABANDE (April, 1918), both by Goole Co.
TARANTELLA (Hamilton, Oct., 1917),
PIROUETTE (Rennie Forrest, Sept., 1917).

These displace 265 tons. I.H.P. 512 = 10.4 kts., except Gavotte and Tarantella, I.H.P. 450 = 10.4 kts.

COTILLION (--/--/--) and MINUET (--/--/--), both by Day, Summers
COVERLEY (--/--/--), and QUADRILLE (--/--/-- ), both by Ferguson Bros.
HORNPIPE (--/--/-- ) and MAZURKA (--/--/--), both by Murdoch & Murray.

All displace 290 tons. I.H.P. 450 = 9.25 - 10 kts. Twin screw (shallow-draught) Minesweepers with screws working in tunnels.

Dimensions: 130 (o.a.) x 26 - 27 x 3� feet.
Guns: Gavotte, 1 - 12 pdr., 1 - 6 pdr.; Step Dance, 1 - 6 pdr. AA. ; rest 1 - 3 pdr.
Machinery: Vertical compound. Boilers: Cylindrical. Fuel : 37-41.5 tons oil.
Complement, 22-26.
Completed Nov., 1917 - Sept., 1918.

Notes.-All built under Emergency War Programme. Sword Dance (builder unknown), sunk by Bolshevist mine in River Dvina. Further units of this Class may be completing and others cancelled, but no details are available of these extra boats.

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Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships for 1919 - Page 134

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