HMS Rampisham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: J. Bolson (Poole)
Launched: 1st May 1957
Completed: 18th October 1957
Pennant number(s): M2786
IMS86
Fate: Sold August 1966.

HMS Rampisham 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 Rampisham in Dorset.

She was renamed HMS Squirrel in December 1957 and reverted to Rampisham in December 1959

[edit] See also

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