HMS Kingham
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Career | |
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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)