HMS Greetham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Herd & McKenzie
Launched: 19th April 1954
Completed: 5th February 1955
Pennant number(s): M2632
IMS34
Fate: Transferred to Libya, 1962. Renamed Zuara.

Acquired by a Maltese tour operator & re-named Lady Davinia. For some years she had a distinctive red & white KITKAT paint scheme. Now laid up in Sliema Creek awaiting her fate (2007)

HMS Greetham 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 Greetham, Lincolnshire or Greetham, Rutland.

[edit] Further reading

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