MINETENDERS (MINESWEEPERS/TUGS)

    T53 (ex-MT.VIII) T54 (ex-MT.IX) T55 (ex-MT.X)
    T56 (ex-MT.XI) T57 (ex-MT.XII) T58 (ex-MT.XIII)
    T59 (ex-MT.XIV) T60 (ex-MT.XV) T61 (ex-MT.XVI)
    T62 (ex-MT.XVII) T63 (ex-MT.XVIII) T64 (ex-MT.XIX)
    T65 (ex-MT.XX) T66 (ex-MT.XXI) T67 (ex-MT.XXII)
    T68 (ex-MT.XXIII) T69 (ex-MT.XXIV) T70 (ex-MT.XXV)
    T71 (ex-MT.XXVI)

    Complement 12 Displacement 47t

Into service 1909 (T53 to T62) / 1918 (T63 to 71). Renumbered 1917. Twelve to Italy, seven to Yugoslavia.

By the end of the war, work had started on two further classes of minelayer/minesweeper:

MT50 class - two vessels partially built but never completed (MT50 and MT51)

MT130 class - fourteen vessels, three launched but not completed (MT130 to MT132 were completed for Italy by 1920, becoming RD58, RD59 and RD60 respectively, but later renamed Albona, Laurana and Rovigno respectively - Albona and Rovigno became German Netztender 57 and Netztender 58 at Syros on 10 Sep 1943 before being scuttled at Salonika whereas Laurana was captured by the Germans at Venice on 11 Sep 1943, retaining her name, serving as a minelayer in the Adriatic and finally being sunk at Triest by aircraft bombs; MT133 to MT137 were completed for Yugoslavia in 1931