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HMS Mersham (M2709)

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Name
  
HMS Mersham

Builder
  
P.K. Harris

Name
  
Violette

Length
  
32 m

Namesake
  
Mersham

Completed
  
14 January 1955

Launched
  
5 April 1954

Draft
  
1.75 m

Fate
  
transferred to France, 1955

HMS Mersham was a Ham-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy.

Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Mersham in Kent.

References

HMS Mersham (M2709) Wikipedia