HMS Pineham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: H McLean (Renfrew)
Launched: 9th May 1955
Completed: 22nd July 1955
Pennant number(s): M2719
IMS56
Fate: Transferred to France, 10th November 1955. Renamed Petunia. Broken up 1985

HMS Pineham 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 Pineham in Buckinghamshire.

[edit] See also

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