HMS Asheldham
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Career | |
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Builder: | Philip |
Launched: | 9th September 1953 |
Completed: | 20th September 1959 |
Pennant number(s): | M2604 IMS04 |
Fate: | Transferred to Malaysia, 1st April 1959. Renamed Sri Perlis. Broken up 1967. |
HMS Asheldham 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 Asheldham in Essex.
[edit] See also
- Blackman, Raymond V.B., ed. Jane’s Fighting Ships 1952-1953. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953.