HMS Everingham (M2626)

Career
Name: HMS Everingham
Namesake: Everingham
Builder: Philip and Son, Dartmouth
Launched: 4 March 1954
Completed: 14 July 1954
Fate: Sold 1983
General characteristics
Class and type:Ham class minesweeper
Type:Minesweeper
Displacement:120 long tons (122 t) standard
164 long tons (167 t) full load
Length:100 ft (30 m) p/p
106 ft 6 in (32.46 m) o/a
Beam:21 ft 4 in (6.50 m)
Draught:5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Propulsion:2 shaft Paxman 12YHAXM diesels
1,100 bhp (820 kW)
Speed:14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Complement:2 officers, 13 ratings
Armament:1 × Bofors 40 mm gun or Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Notes:Pennant number(s): M2626 / IMS28

HMS Everingham 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 Everingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

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