Name HMS Bramham Laid down 7 April 1941 Decommissioned March 1943 Launched 29 January 1942 | Ordered 4 September 1940 Commissioned 16 June 1942 Identification pennant number L51 Length 85 m | |
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Builder Alexander Stephen and Sons | ||
HMS Bramham (L51) was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down in Alexander Stephen and Sons shipyards Govan, Scotland on 7 April 1941. She was launched on 29 January 1942 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 16 June 1942. She has been the only Royal Navy warship to bear the name. She was adopted by the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire during the Warship Week savings campaign of 1942.
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Royal Navy service
Bramham was one of two ships that returned to rescue the survivors of HMS Curacoa.
In the following August she served in Operation Pedestal, a mission to deliver supplies to the besieged island of Malta, as an escorting destroyer. In the last stages of the operation Bramham along with two other destroyers, Ledbury and Penn took on the final tow of the tanker Ohio into Malta.
Royal Hellenic Navy service
In March 1943 Bramham was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy and renamed Themistoklis after the ancient Greek philosopher Themistocles. She served until 1959 and was then returned to the Royal Navy on 12 November 1959. She was scrapped in Greece in 1960.