Career (United Kingdom) | |
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Name: | HMS Bodenham |
Namesake: | Bodenham |
Builder: | Brooke Marine |
Launched: | 21 August 1952 |
Completed: | 23 September 1953 |
Fate: | transferred to Saudi Arabia, 4 March 1968 |
Career (Saudi Arabia) | |
Name: | HMS Al Saqr |
Acquired: | 4 March 1968 |
Struck: | 1984 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Ham-class minesweeper |
Displacement: | 120 long tons (122 t) standard 164 long tons (167 t) full load |
Length: | 100 ft (30 m) p/p 106 ft 6 in (32.46 m) o/a |
Beam: | 21 ft 4 in (6.50 m) |
Draught: | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
Propulsion: | 2 shaft Paxman 12YHAXM diesels 1,100 bhp (820 kW) |
Speed: | 14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
Complement: | 2 officers, 13 ratings |
Armament: | 1 × Bofors 40 mm gun or Oerlikon 20 mm cannon |
Notes: | Pennant number(s): M2609 / IMS09 |
HMS Bodenham 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 Bodenham in Herefordshire.