Pick one category for the following text. The options are - company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work. Chamois-class minesweeping sloops - The Chamois class were French minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines) ordered between 1935 and 1939. They were similar in design to the Elan class and like them classed as minesweepers but were actually used as anti-submarine ships convoy escorts and patrol vessels.Although all 24 ships of the class were laid down between 1936 and 1939 only five were commissioned in time to serve in the French Navy during World War II.
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