HMS Dittisham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Fairlie Yacht
Launched: October 1953
Completed: 29th June 1954
Pennant number(s): M2621
IMS23
Fate: Given to the Sea Cadets, 1983. Broken up 1997

HMS Dittisham 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 Dittisham in Devon.

She was latterly used as a training ship based at Devonport, Plymouth and HMS Vernon at Portsmouth.

[edit] See also

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


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