HMS Kingham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: White (IOW) .
Launched: 26th January 1955
Completed: 1st June 1955
Pennant number(s): M2704
IMS41
Fate: Transferred to France 1955. Renamed Paquerette. Broken up 1989

HMS Kingham 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 Kingham in Oxfordshire.

[edit] See also

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