HMS Shipham
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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)