HMS Tibenham
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Career | |
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Builder: | McGruer (Clynder) |
Launched: | 10th March 1955 |
Completed: | 28th April 1955 |
Pennant number(s): | M2734 IMS71 |
Fate: | Transferred to France 1955. Renamed Geranium. Stricken 1987 |
HMS Tibenham 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 Tibenham in Norfolk.
[edit] See also
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)