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|Built range=[[1917]] –[[ 1918]]

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|In commission range=[[1918]]–[[ - 1946]]

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The '''24 class''' was a [[ship class|class]] of minesweeping [[sloop-of-war|sloops]]. Derived from the preceding {{sclass2|Flower|sloop}}, but designed to appear double-ended. Twenty-four ships to this design (hence the class name) were ordered between December 1916 and April 1917 under the [[Emergency War Programme]] for the [[Royal Navy]] in [[World War I]], although two of them were cancelled before launch. All were named after famous racehorses, but they were not named "''Racehorse"'' class as the [[Admiralty]] realised that this could easily be confused in communications with the {{sclass2|Racecourse|minesweeper||ship}} of paddle minesweepers, and they officially became the '''24 class'''.

Like the Flower -class sloops, they were single-screw Fleetfleet Sweepingsweeping Sloopssloops used almost entirely for minesweeping, although only ten were completed by the [[Armistice]] in 1918. However, they had identical deckhouses and gunshields at either end of the vessel, with straight stems and sterns. Furthermore four of those completed had the single mast aft of the centrally-located funnel, and the rest had the mast forwardsforward of the funnel.

== Ships ==

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* {{HMS|Donovan|1918|6}} — built by [[Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company]], launched 27 April 1918. Sold 15 November 1922.

* {{HMS|Flying Fox|1918|6}} — built by Swan Hunter, launched 28 March 1918. Transferred to RNVR on 24 March 1920.

* {{HMS| ''Galtee More}}'' — ordered from Osbourne Graham, transferred to Swan Hunter 7 June 1918, then cancelled 3 December 1918.

* {{HMS|Harvester|1918|6}} — built by [[Barclay Curle & Company]], [[Whiteinch]], launched 2 November 1918. Sold for breaking up in August 1922.

* {{HMS|Iroquois|1918|6}} — built by Barclay Curle, launched 24 August 1918. Survey ship in 1922. Sold for breaking up 15 January 1923.

* {{HMS|Isinglass|1919|6}} — built by Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard, launched 5 March 1919. Sold 12 August 1920.

* {{HMS|Ladas|1918|6}} — built by [[Osbourne Graham & Company]], [[Sunderland, Tyne and Wear|Sunderland]], launched 21 September 1918. Sold 6 November 1920.

* {{HMS|Merry Hampton|1918|6}} — built by [[Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company]], launched 19 December 1918. Survey ship in February 1923, renamed ''Herald''. Scuttled in February 1942 at [[Selatar]] but salved by the Japanese Navy and added as IJN ''Heiyo'' in October 1942. Sunk by mine 14 November 1944.

* {{HMS|Minoru|1919|6}} — built by Swan Hunter, launched 6 June 1919. Sold 25 February 1920, becoming mercantile ''Haim Mazza''.

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* {{HMS|Sanfoin|1918|6}} — built by [[Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company]], Greenock, launched 10 June 1918. Sold 15 November 1922.

* {{HMS|Sefton|1918|6}} — built by Barclay Curle, launched 6 July 1918. Sold August 1922.

* {{HMS|Silvio|1918|6}} — built by Barclay Curle, launched 12 April 1918. Transferred to [[Royal Australian Navy]] in December 1924 and became survey ship {{HMAS| ''Moresby|1918|6}}'' in April 1925. Escort vessel 1940. Sold for breaking up 1946 at Newcastle, NSW.

* {{HMS|Sir Bevis|1918|6}} — built by Barclay Curle, launched 11 May 1918. Transferred to RNVR in September 1923, renamed ''Irwell'', then again renamed ''Eaglet'' in 1926.

* {{HMS|Sir Hugo|1918|6}} — built by Greenock & Grangemouth, launched 20 September 1918. Depot ship in October 1919. Sold for breaking up 25 June 1930.

* {{HMS|Sir Visto|1918|6}} — built by Osbourne Graham, launched 4 December 1918. Sold 12 August 1920, becoming mercantile ''Fanny Mazza''.

* {{HMS|Spearmint|1918|6}} — built by Swan Hunter, launched 23 September 1918. Sold for breaking up 29 November 1922.

* {{HMS| ''Sunstar}}'' — ordered from Swan Hunter, but cancelled 3 December 1918.

==See also==