HMS Hildersham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Vosper
Launched: 5th February 1954
Completed: 9th November 1954
Pennant number(s): M2705
IMS42
Fate: Transferred to India, 1955. Renamed Bimlipatan. Stricken 1994

HMS Hildersham 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 Hildersham in Cambridgeshire.

[edit] See also

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