HMS Elsenham (M2624)

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Name HMS Elsenham Completed 11 January 1956 Type Minesweeper Draft 1.68 m		Namesake Elsenham Class and type Ham class minesweeper Launched 25 May 1955
Fate Sold to the Federation of South Arabia 1967. Stricken 1984. Builder Ailsa Shipbuilding Company

HMS Elsenham 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 Elsenham in Essex.

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