HMS Rendlesham
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Career | |
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Builder: | Brooke Marine |
Launched: | 13th October 1954 |
Completed: | 25th February 1955 |
Pennant number(s): | M2724 IMS61 |
Fate: | Transferred to France, 1955. Renamed Aubepine. Sold 1974 |
HMS Rendlesham 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 Rendlesham in Suffolk.
[edit] See also
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)