HMS Birdham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Jason Taylor
Launched: 19th September 1955
Completed: 5th March 1957
Pennant number(s): M2785
IMS85
Fate: Sold 1980

HMS Birdham 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 Birdham in West Sussex.

[edit] See also

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