Career (United Kingdom) | |
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Name: | HMS Asheldham |
Namesake: | Asheldham |
Builder: | Philip |
Launched: | 9 September 1953 |
Completed: | 20 September 1954 |
Fate: | Transferred to Malaysia, 1 April 1959 |
Notes: | Pennant number(s): M2604 / IMS04 |
Career (Malaysia) | |
Name: | KD Sri Perlis |
Acquired: | 1 April 1959 |
Fate: | broken up 1967[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Ham-class minesweeper |
Displacement: | 120 tons standard 164 tons full |
Length: | 106 ft 6 in (32.46 m) |
Beam: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
Draught: | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
Propulsion: | 2 shaft Paxman 12YHAXM diesels, 1,100 bhp (820 kW) |
Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
Complement: | 2 officers, 13 ratings |
Armament: | 1 × 40 mm Bofors / 20 mm Oerlikon gun |
HMS Asheldham 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 Asheldham in Essex.