HMS Mileham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: William Weatherhead & Sons, Cockenzie
Launched: 1st July 1954
Completed: 16th March 1955
Pennant number(s): M2711
IMS48
Fate: Transferred to France, 1955. Renamed Hortensia. Stricken 1983

HMS Mileham 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 Mileham in Norfolk.

[edit] See also

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