Name HMS Bucklesham Completed 20 April 1954 Class and type Ham class minesweeper Draft 1.68 m | Namesake Bucklesham Fate Sold 1981 Launched 8 August 1952 | |
Builder Ardrossan Dockyard Ltd. | ||
HMS Bucklesham 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 Bucklesham in Suffolk.
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