HMS Bedham (M2606)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Bedham
Namesake:	Bedham
Builder:	J. Bolson, Poole
Launched:	29 July 1953
Completed:	18 December 1953
Fate:	Transferred to Malaysia 1959.
Notes:	Pennant number(s): M2606 / IMS06
Malaysia
Name:	KD Lanka Suka
Acquired:	1959
Fate:	Broken up 1967.[1]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Ham-class 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

HMS Bedham 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 Bedham in West Sussex.

Further reading

• Blackman, Raymond V.B., ed. Jane's Fighting Ships 1952–1953. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953.

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