HMS Tibenham

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Career RN Ensign
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)