HMS Portisham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Dorset Yacht Co.
Launched: 3rd November 1955
Completed: 26th March 1956
Pennant number(s): M2781
IMS81
Fate: Sold January 1989

HMS Portisham 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 Portisham in Dorset.

[edit] See also

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


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