HMS Rackham
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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)