HMS Rampisham (M2786)

History
Name: HMS Rampisham
Namesake: Rampisham
Builder: J. Bolson, Poole
Launched: 1 May 1957
Completed: 18 October 1957
Fate: Sold August 1966
General characteristics
Class & type: Ham-class minesweeper
Notes: Pennant number(s): M2786 / IMS86

HMS Rampisham 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 Rampisham in Dorset.

She was renamed HMS Squirrel in December 1957, and reverted to Rampisham in December 1959.

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