HMS Stedham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Wm. Blackmore
Launched: 12th January 1955
Completed: 28th July 1955
Pennant number(s): M2730
IMS67
Fate: Transferred to France, 1955. Renamed Jasmine. Stricken 1985

HMS Stedham 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 Stedham in West Sussex.

[edit] See also

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