HMS Isham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: White (IOW)
Launched: 13th September 1954
Completed: 25th January 1955
Pennant number(s): M2703
IMS40
Fate: Transferred to France 22nd April 1955. Renamed Oeillet (M774). Broken up 1989

HMS Isham 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 Isham in Northamptonshire.

[edit] See also

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