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Sixteen were transferred to the [[French Navy]]: ''D241'' (ex-''MMS-21''; later ''D361''), ''D242'' (ex-''MMS-184''; later ''D362''), ''D251'' (ex-''MMS-47''; later ''D363''), ''D252'' (ex-''MMS-9''; later ''D364''), ''D261'' (ex-''MMS-116''; later ''D365''), ''D262'' (ex-''MMS-118''; later ''D366'), ''D291'' (ex-''MMS-133''; later ''D367''), ''D292'' (ex-''MMS-134''; later ''D368''), ''D371'' (ex-''MMS-221''), ''D372'' (ex-''MMS-202''), ''D373'' (ex-MMS-220''), ''D374'' (ex-''MMS-91''), ''D375'' (ex-''MMS-75''), ''D376'' (ex-''MMS-204''), ''D377'' (ex-''MMS-49'') and ''D378'' (ex-''MMS-13''). All were returned to the [[Royal Navy]] in October 1947.<ref>Preston, p. 136</ref><ref>Gardiner & Chesneau 1980, p. 277</ref>
Eleven were transferred to the [[Royal Netherlands Navy]]; two were lost, one returned to the RN, and eight were retained postwar. The 11 vessels were: ''Ameland'' (ex-''MMS-231''), ''Beveland'' (ex-''MMS-237''), ''Marken'' (i) (ex-''MMS-227'', lost 20 May 1944), {{HNLMS|Marken|1944|2}}'' (ii) (ex-''MMS-54''), ''Putten'' (ex-''MMS-138''), ''Rozenburg'' (ex-''MMS-292''), ''Terschelling'' (i) (ex-''MMS-174'', lost 12 July 1942), ''Terschelling (ii) (ex-''MMS-234''), ''Texel'' (i) (ex-''MMS-173'', returned to RN November 1942), ''Texel'' (ii) (ex-''MMS-73''), and ''Vlieland'' (ex-''MMS-226''). ''Vlieland'' was lost in Indonesian waters in November 1951.<ref>Preston, p. 212</ref><ref>McMurtrie and Blackman 1949, p. 234</ref><ref name="Gardiner & Chesneau 1980, p. 394">Gardiner & Chesneau 1980, p. 394</ref>
Seventeen were loaned to the [[Italian Navy]]: ''MMS-10'', ''32'', ''34'', ''35'', ''48'', ''50'', ''99'', ''100'', ''102-106'', ''135'', ''167'', ''172'' and ''185''. The first to be returned to the Royal Navy were ''MMS-34'' and ''35'', in August 1949.<ref>McMurtrie and Blackman 1949, p. 217</ref>
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