Career (United Kingdom) | |
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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.