HMS Whippingham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Jason Taylor
Launched: 28th August 1954
Completed: 21st June 1955
Pennant number(s): M2739
IMS76
Fate: Transferred to France, 1955. Renamed Dahlia. Stricken 1992

HMS Whippingham 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 Whippingham on the Isle of Wight.

[edit] See also

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