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 Navy

• 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