HMS Riplingham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: Brooke Marine
Launched: 11 January 1955
Completed: 1 July 1955
Pennant number(s): M2725
IMS62
Fate: Transferred to France 1955. Renamed Myosotis. Stricken 1985

HMS Riplingham 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 Riplingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

[edit] See also

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