HMS Malham (M2789)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Malham
Namesake: Malham
Builder: Fairlie Yacht
Launched: 29 August 1958
Completed: 10 December 1958
Fate: transferred to Ghana, October 1959
Career (Ghana)
Name: GNS Yogada
Acquired: October 1959
Commissioned: 31 October 1959
Fate: broken up, 1977
General characteristics
Class and type:Ham-class minesweeper
Displacement:120 tons standard
164 tons full
Length:106 ft 6 in (32.46 m)
Beam:22 ft (6.7 m)
Draught:5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Propulsion:2 shaft Paxman 12YHAXM diesels, 1,100 bhp (820 kW)
Speed:14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement:2 officers, 13 ratings
Armament:1 × 40 mm Bofors / 20 mm Oerlikon gun
Notes:Pennant number(s): M2789 / IMS89

HMS Malham 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 Malham in North Yorkshire.

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