HMS Bedham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: J. Bolson (Poole)
Launched: 29th July 1953
Completed: 18.12.53
Pennant number(s): M2606
IMS06
Fate: Transferred to Malaysia 1959. Renamed Lanka Suka. Broken up 1967.

HMS Bedham 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 Bedham in West Sussex.

[edit] See also

  • Blackman, Raymond V.B., ed. Jane’s Fighting Ships 1952-1953. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953.