more than 1000 BRT:
| Name | Launched // Comm. | Builder | Tonnage, BRT | Dimensions, m | Speed, kts | Machinery, Fuel, t | Armament | Fate |
| Agamemnon | 25.4.1929 // 10.1940 | Workman Clark, Belfast | 13735 | 140.2 x 18.1 | 15.5 | 2diesels, oil 1191 | 2 - 102/45 Mk V, 2 - 40, 4 - 20, 4 - 13, 530 mines | miscellaneous vessel 1944 |
| Bungaree (RAN) | 9.2.1937 // 10.1940 | Caledon, Dundee | 3155 | 112.5 x 14.8 x 6.8 | 11 | 1VTE+exh turbine, coal 573 | 2 - 102/40 Mk IV, 1 - 76/40, 467 mines | returned 1946 |
| Hampton (ex-Hampton Ferry) | 30.7.1934 // 8.1939 | Swan Hunter, Wallsend | 2839 | 105.8 x 18.5 | 16.5 | 2turbines, coal 130 | 1 - 102/40, 2 - 13, 270 mines | to MWT as ferry 7.1940 |
| Holland | 16.8.1919 // 1942 | P. P. Stuhr, Denmark | 1251 | 72.7(pp)x11.0x | 9 | 1VTE | ||
| Kung Wo | 1921 // 1.1941 | Hong Kong & Wampoa SYd | 4636 | 110.5 x 14.8 | 15 | 2VTE, oil | 2 - 102/45 BL Mk IX or 2 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, mines | sunk 14.2.1942 |
| Menestheus | 6.8.1929 // 12.1939 | Caledon, Dundee | 13735 | 140.2 x 18.1 | 15.5 | 2diesels, oil 1191 | 2 - 102/45 Mk V, 2 - 40, 4 - 20, 4 - 13, 410 mines | amenity ship 2.1945 |
| Port Napier | 23.4.1940 // 1940 | Swan Hunter, Wallsend | 9847 | 159.7 x 21.0 | 16 | 2diesels, oil | 2 - 102/45 Mk V, 2 - 40, 550 mines | fire 27.11.1940 |
| Port Quebec | 17.8.1939 // 1939 | Thompson, North Sands | 8490 | 142.6 x 18.1 | 16 | 1diesel, oil | 2 - 102/45 Mk V, 2 - 40, 4 - 20, 2 - 13, 548 mines | repair ship Deer Sound 1.1945 |
| Princess Victoria | 21.4.1939 // 9.1939 | Denny, Dumbarton | 2197 | 93.0 x 14.6 | 19 | 2diesels, oil | 2 - 76/40, 244 mines | sunk 19.5.1940 |
| Shepperton (ex-Shepperton Ferry) | 23.10.1934 // 8.1939 | Swan Hunter, Wallsend | 2839 | 105.8 x 18.5 | 16.5 | 2turbines, coal 130 | 1 - 102/40, 2 - 13, 270 mines | CTL 5.5.1941 |
| Southern Prince | 12.3.1929 // 6.1940 | Lithgows, Glasgow | 10917 | 151.2 x 19.7 | 17 | 2diesels, oil 1874 | 2 - 102/45 Mk V, 7 - 20, 562 mines | accommodation ship 10.1944 |
| Teviotbank | 1.12.1937 // 9.1939 | Redhead, South Shields | 5087 | 130.8 x 17.8 | 15 | 1VTE, coal 490 | 1 - 102/40, 1 - 76/40, 2 - 20, 280 mines | returned 1945 |
less than 1000 BRT:
| Alca (1929, 3717, 1 - 102/45, 6 - 20/70, 220 mines, 11.1940 - 1946), Alsey (1932, 416, 2.1940 - 1946), Atreus (1911, 6645, 1 - 76/40, 4 - 20/70, 192 mines, 1939 - 1945), Hong Lam (1928, 104, 11.1941 - ?.5.1943), Kaiwaka (RNZN) (1937, 169, 5.1941 - 1946), Loch Nevis (1934, 600, 11.1940 - 4.1944), Manyeung (1933, 371, 8.1939 - ?.12.1941) |
Project history: Merchant vessels requisitioned by Admiralty for minelaying.
Modernizations: 1944, Bungaree: - 2 x 1 - 102/40; + 2 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V. Late in the war most ships had 2 40/39-mm pompoms and 4 - 8 20/70-mm Oerlikons (Southern Prince had 14 Oerlikons only).
Naval service: Format of date including day/month/year means loss of the vessel. Format of date containing month/year means return to owner or conversion to miscellaneous vessel. Princess Victoria was mined 19.5.1940. Shepperton and Kung Wo were sunk by aircraft.
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