Royal Navy – Mine Warfare Ships

Mine Warfare Ships

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Hunt Class LOA 196′ / 59.7 m TDISP 750 tons (13 built, 6 active with RN, 3 active with Greece and Lithuania, 1 Greek ship sunk, service since 1981)

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HMS Atherstone M-38 (1987-2017) at Portsmouth, 2011. Credit: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Hunt class MS Portsmouth 2016 Hunt class MS Portsmouth 2019

HMS Brecon M-29 (1979-2005) transferred 2008 to become the static training ship at HMS Raleigh. Moored off Jupiter Point. HMS Brecon at HMS Raleigh 2017

Sandown Class LOA 172′ / 52.4 m TDISP 600 tons (12 built for RN, 3 decommissioned and 3 transferred to Estonia. 3 built for Saudi Arabia, 7 active, service since 1998)

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HMS Pembroke M-107 at Grand Harbour, Malta, 2008. Credit: K B from Malta, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Hindostan Sandown class Britannia RN college 2020Sandown class MS Portsmouth 2004

River class Fleet Minesweepers LOA 154′ / 46.9 m TISP 900 tons (12 built, RN service 1984-1994, transferred to Brazil, Bangladesh, and Guyana, still in service)

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HMS Blackwater, River class minesweeper, shown close to shore flying her Paying Off pennant, before transfer to Bangladesh on 3 October 1994. Copyright: © IWM FL 26403.

River class mine warfare Chittagong 2019

Ton class Coastal Minesweepers LOA 153′ / 46.6 m TDISP 450 tons (119 built, service in several navies, all retired) Mahogany-hulled. See Royal Australian Navy pages for other examples.

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HMS Wasperton (1956-1986), after 1971 conversion to a patrol ship, Hong Kong squadron, participating in joint exercises with the Royal Thai Navy, 1973. Courtesy of James Nolton, who retains copyright [Detail of].
HMS Bronington M-1115 (1954-1988) From 1989 to 2016 she was preserved, as a museum ship or awaiting restoration, and was in the collection of the Warship Preservation Trust before its closure. In 2016 she sank at the dock, and has remained half-submerged.HMS Bronington M-1115 West Float 2015HMS Bronington M-1115 derelict West Float 2020

“Protector III” Motor Minesweeper MMS(wooden hull)LOA 119’/32m TDISP 250 tons. built at Port Greville, Nova Scotia for the Royal Navy. 396 built of the class (with some a longer type by about 15 feet), and 10 Llewellyn class for the RCN. Sealing ship after war in Falklands from 1949-1960s.   In Royal Canadian Navy, similar ships served as the Llewellyn Class. MMS 250 or 251, see https://deepbluediver.uk/2022/03/20/protector-iii-definitive/

Protector III MMS wreck falklands

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