HMS Tongham (M2735)

Career
Name: HMS Tongham
Namesake: Tongham
Builder: Jason Miller
Launched: 30 November 1955
Completed: 18 June 1957
Fate: Sold 1980
General characteristics
Class and type: Ham-class minesweeper
Notes: Pennant number(s): M2735 / IMS72

HMS Tongham 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 Tongham in Surrey.

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