HMS Asheldham

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Career RN Ensign
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.