Career | |
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Name: | HMS Cranham |
Namesake: | Cranham |
Builder: | J. Samuel White |
Launched: | 24 November 1953 |
Completed: | 1 June 1954 |
Fate: | Sold September 1966. As of 2007 a cruising vessel Burja |
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 |
Notes: | Pennant number(s): M2701 / IMS19 |
HMS Cranham was one of 93 Royal Navy ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers.
Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Cranham in Gloucestershire.