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British anti-submarine warships
HMT Foxtrot in December 1942
Class overview
Name Dance class
Operators
Built 1940–1941
In service 1940–1946
Completed 20
General characteristics
Type
Armed trawler
Displacement 545 tons
Length 164 ft (50 m)
Beam 27 ft 8 in (8.43 m)
Draught 11 ft 1 in (3.38 m) (mean)
Propulsion One triple expansion reciprocating engine, 850
ihp (630 kW)
Speed 12
knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement 40
Armament
The Dance class of
World War II were
armed trawlers of the
Royal Navy . They were used for
anti-submarine (A/S) and
minesweeping work and were nearly identical to the
Isles class , of which they are usually considered a subclass.
One Dance-class trawler (Sword Dance ) was a war loss, and one (Saltarelo ) was transferred to Portugal in 1945. Four were transferred to Italy in 1946: Gavotte , Hornpipe , Minuet and Two Step . None remained in service with the Royal Navy by the end of 1946.
Ships in class
Built by the Ardrossan Dockyard Company,
Ardrossan , UK
Built by Cochrane & Sons, Ltd. Selby, UK
Built by
Cook, Welton & Gemmell , Beverley, UK
Gavotte – Launched 1940, transferred to Italy 1946 as DR 312
Hornpipe – Launched 1940, transferred to Italy 1946 as DR 316
Built by
Ferguson Brothers (Port Glasgow) Ltd. , Port Glasgow, UK
Mazurka – Launched 1940, sold 1946
Minuet – Launched 1941, transferred to Italy 1946 as DR 307
Built by Goole Shipbuilding & Repair Company, Goole, UK
Built by Hall, Russell & Company, Ltd., Aberdeen, UK
Built by A. & J. Inglis, Ltd., Glasgow, UK (part of
Harland and Wolff )
Built by Henry Robb, Ltd., Leith, UK
Saltarelo – Launched 6 August 1940, transferred to Portugal 1945 as Salvador Correia
Sword Dance – Launched 1940, war loss 5 July 1942
Built by Smith's Dock Company, Ltd., South Bank-on-Tees, UK
Tango – Launched 1940, sold 1946
Two Step , ex-Tarantella – Launched 1941, transferred to Italy 1946 as DR 308
Valse – Launched 1941, sold 1946
Veleta – Launched 1941, sold 1946
See also
References
Robert Gardiner (ed. dir.), Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946 , p. 66. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1980.
Francis E. McMurtrie and Raymond V.B. Blackman (eds.), Jane's Fighting Ships 1949–50 , pp. 217, 258. New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1949