HMS Bodenham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Brooke Marine .
Launched: 21st August 1952
Completed: 23rd September 1953
Pennant number(s): M2609
IMS09
Fate: Transferred to Saudi Arabia, 4th March 1968. Stricken 1984

HMS Bodenham 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 Bodenham in Herefordshire.

[edit] See also

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