HMS Rendlesham

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Career RN Ensign
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)