HMS Bottisham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Ailsa (Troon)
Launched: 17th January 1953
Completed: 21st October 1953
Pennant number(s): M2611
IMS11
Fate: Sold 1968

HMS Bottisham 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 Bottisham in Cambridgeshire.

[edit] See also

  • Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)