HMS Bodenham (M2609)

Career (United Kingdom)
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.

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