HMS Bisham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: J. Bolson (Poole)
Launched: 6th March 1954
Completed: 02.07.54
Pennant number(s): M2607
IMS07
Fate: Destroyed by fire, 29th September 1956. Wreck sold 1957

HMS Bisham 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 Bisham in Berkshire.

[edit] See also

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