HMS Bodenham
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Career | |
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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.