HMS Fordham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Jones Slip
Launched: 7th August 1956
Completed: 13th December 1956
Pennant number(s): M2717
Fate: Sold 1981

HMS Fordham was one of 93 ships of the Ham class of inshore minesweepers.

Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Fordham in Cambridgeshire.

[edit] See also

  • Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)