HMS Altham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Camper & Nicholson
Launched: 2nd December 1952
Completed: 8th July 1953
Pennant number(s): M2602
IMS02
Fate: Transferred to Malaysia 1st April 1959. Renamed Sri Johore. Broken up 1967

HMS Altham 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 Altham in Lancashire.

[edit] See also

  • Blackman, Raymond V.B., ed. Jane’s Fighting Ships 1952-1953. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953.