HMS Rackham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Saunders-Roe
Launched: 27th April 1956
Completed: 26th June 1956
Pennant number(s): M2722
IMS59
Fate: Sold July 1967

HMS Rackham 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 Rackham in West Sussex.

[edit] See also

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