Career | |
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Name: | HMS Thatcham |
Namesake: | Thatcham |
Builder: | Jones Slip |
Launched: | 25 September 1957 |
Completed: | 17 April 1958 |
Fate: | Sold 1986 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Ham-class minesweeper |
Notes: | Pennant number(s): M2790 / IMS90 |
HMS Thatcham 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 Thatcham in Berkshire.