HMS Pineham
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Career | |
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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)