HMS Sparham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Vosper
Launched: 14th October 1954
Completed: 26.07.55
Pennant number(s): M2731
IMS68
Fate: Transferred to France, 30th September 1955. Renamed Hibiscus. Stricken 1986

HMS Sparham 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 Sparham in Norfolk.

[edit] See also

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