HMS Pineham (M2719)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Pineham
Namesake: Pineham
Builder: H. McLean, Renfrew
Launched: 9 May 1955
Completed: 22 July 1955
Fate: transferred to France, 10 November 1955
Career (France)
Name: Petunia
Acquired: 10 November 1955
Fate: broken up, 1985
General characteristics
Class and type: Ham-class minesweeper
Notes: Pennant number(s): M2719 / IMS56

HMS Pineham was a Ham-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy.

Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Pineham in Buckinghamshire.

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