HMS Mersham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: P.K. Harris
Launched: 5th April 1954
Completed: 14th January 1955
Pennant number(s): M2709
IMS46
Fate: Transferred to France, 1955. Renamed Violette. Stricken 1987

HMS Mersham 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 Mersham in Kent.

[edit] See also

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