HMS Hildersham
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Career | |
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Builder: | Vosper |
Launched: | 5th February 1954 |
Completed: | 9th November 1954 |
Pennant number(s): | M2705 IMS42 |
Fate: | Transferred to India, 1955. Renamed Bimlipatan. Stricken 1994 |
HMS Hildersham 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 Hildersham in Cambridgeshire.
[edit] See also
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)