HMS Mersham
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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)