The A Class is a class of minehunter

Minehunter

Minehunters are mine countermeasure vessels that actively detect and destroy individual naval mines. Minesweepers, on the other hand, clear mined areas as a whole, without prior detection of mines...

 vessels in the Turkish Navy

Turkish Navy

The Turkish Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces.- Ottoman fleet after Mudros :Following the demise of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, on November 3, 1918, the fleet commander of the Ottoman Navy, Liva Amiral Arif Pasha, ordered all flags to be...

. In 1999, the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 shipyards Lürssen

Lürssen

Lürssen is a German shipbuilding company based in Bremen-Vegesack.Lürssen designs and constructs yachts, naval ships and special vessels...

 and Abeking & Rasmussen were contracted to build six Frankenthal class

Frankenthal class mine hunter

The Type 332 Frankenthal class mine hunter is a class of German mine hunters. The ships are built of non-magnetic steel. Hull, machinery and superstructure of this class is similar to the original Type 343 Hameln class minesweeper, but the equipment differs....

 ships for the Turkish Navy, a business worth US$ 630 million. While the first vessel was built in Germany, later ships were constructed by the Istanbul Naval Shipyard.

The Turkish Navy has become the second naval force in the world, after the German Navy

German Navy

The German Navy is the navy of Germany and is part of the unified Bundeswehr .The German Navy traces its roots back to the Imperial Fleet of the revolutionary era of 1848 – 52 and more directly to the Prussian Navy, which later evolved into the Northern German Federal Navy...

, to utilize a non-magnetic steel hull in its minehunter vessels.

Pennant Number Pennant number In the modern Royal Navy, and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth, ships are identified by pennant numbers...	Name	shipyard	commissioned
M265	Alanya	Abeking & Rasmussen, Lürssen	26 July 2005
M266	Amasra	Istanbul Naval Shipyard	26 July 2005
M267	Ayvalık	Istanbul Naval Shipyard	22 June 2007
M268	Akçakoca	Istanbul Naval Shipyard	17 September 2007
M269	Anamur	Istanbul Naval Shipyard
M270	Akçay	Istanbul Naval Shipyard