Dance-class minesweeper

Class overview
Name	Dance class
In service	1917–1920
Completed	14
Lost	2
Retired	12
General characteristics
Type	Minesweeper
Displacement	265–290 long tons (269–295 t)
Length	130 ft (40 m)
Beam	26–27 ft (7.9–8.2 m)
Propulsion	Machinery: Vertical compound; Boilers: Cylindrical; 450 ihp (340 kW);
Speed	9.25–10 knots (17.13–18.52 km/h; 10.64–11.51 mph)
Range	37–41.5 tons oil
Complement	22–26 men
Armament	1 × 3-pounder except:; 1 × 12-pounder + 1 × 6-pounder (Gavotte); 1 × 6-pounder AA (Step Dance);

The Dance-class minesweepers were series of minesweepers of the Royal Navy. They were originally designed as a shallow-draft twin-screw tunnel tugs, and were taken over by the British Admiralty as coastal minesweeping sloops. They were completed between November 1917 and September 1918 under the Emergency War Programme, during World War I.

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