HMS Shipham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Brooke Marine
Launched: 14th July 1955
Completed: 3rd February 1956
Pennant number(s): M2726
IMS63
Fate: Sold 1986

HMS Shipham 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 Shipham in Somerset.

[edit] See also

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