HMS Nettleham (M2713)

Career
Name: HMS Nettleham
Namesake: Nettleham
Builder: J. Samuel White
Launched: 19 December 1956
Completed: 21 February 1958
Fate: Sold November 1967
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): M2713 / IMS50

HMS Nettleham 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 Nettleham in Lincolnshire.

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