HMS Kinross was a Hunt-class minesweeper built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Completed in 1918, the ship was sunk after striking a mine the following year.
The Aberdare sub-class were enlarged versions of the original Hunt-class ships with a more powerful armament. The ships displaced at normal load and at full load. They measured long overall with a beam of and a draught of . The ships' complement consisted of 74 officers and ratings.
The ships had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft using steam provided by two Yarrow boilers. The engines produced a total of and gave a maximum speed of . They carried a maximum of of coal which gave them a range of at .
The Aberdare sub-class was armed with a quick-firing (QF) gun forward of the bridge and a QF twelve-pounder (3-inch (76.2 mm)) anti-aircraft gun aft. Some ships were fitted with QF six-pounder () Hotchkiss guns or QF three-pounder () Hotchkiss guns in lieu of the twelve-pounder.
Kinross, the first ship of her name in the Royal Navy, was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at their shipyard in Govan, Scotland. The ship was launched on 4 July 1918. She struck a mine in the Aegean Sea and sank on 16 June 1919.