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Flower-class sloop (112 ships in 4 sub-classes, launched 1914—1918) convoy sloops intended originally for minesweeping; Hunt-class minesweeper, Belvoir group (20 ships, launched 1916—1917) Ailsa twin-screw coastal minesweeping sloops
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In the early months of the Second World War, Germany made extensive use of magnetic mines, which led to a requirement for a wooden minesweeper, less vulnerable than steel trawlers. [1] The resultant design, the 105 ft-class [ 2 ] (also known as the MMS 1 series [ 3 ] and later the Type 1501 series [ 4 ] ) was built between 1940 and 1944.
The P.V. type minesweeping trawlers were seven Royal Canadian Navy minesweeping trawlers built before the First World War in the United States. Initially constructed and used as menhaden trawlers they were taken into service the Royal Canadian Navy during the First World War for patrol duty along the Atlantic coast.
No. 20. The No.19 class minesweeper (第十九号型掃海艇,, Dai Jūkyū Gō-gata Sōkaitei) was a class of minesweepers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), serving during World War II. 70 vessels were planned under the Maru 4 Programme (Ship # 164–169), Maru Kyū Programme (Ship # 410–437) and Kai-Maru 5 Programme (Ship # 5301–5336), however, only 17 vessels were completed.
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In the early 1980s, the U.S. Navy began development of a new mine countermeasures (MCM) force, which included two new classes of ships and minesweeping helicopters.The vital importance of a state-of-the-art mine countermeasures force was strongly underscored in the Persian Gulf during the eight years of the Iran–Iraq War, and in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991 when ...
T-120 was a minesweeper of the Soviet Navy during World War II and the Cold War.She had originally been built as USS Assail (AM-147), an Admirable-class minesweeper, for the United States Navy during World War II, but never saw active service in the U.S. Navy.