HMS Damerham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Brooke Marine
Launched: 15th June 1953
Completed: 19th March 1954
Pennant number(s): M2629
IMS31
Fate: Sold September 1966, 4 years after being rammed and cut in half by HMS St Brides Bay in 1960.

HMS Damerham 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 Damerham in Hampshire.

[edit] See also

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