Name HMS Pagham Completed 22 March 1956 Class and type Ham-class minesweeper Launched 4 October 1955 | Namesake Pagham Fate Sold 1983 Construction started 10 June 1955 Builder Jones Slip | |
Notes Pennant number(s) M2716 / IMS53 | ||
HMS Pagham 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 Pagham in West Sussex.
In 1978 she was loaned to the Stranraer Sea Cadet Unit, and formally given to them on 1 May 1999. After the closure of the Stranraer Sea Cadet unit the MOD/SCC sold her for a nominal fee to a private owner who stripped her of reclaimable parts. In March 2008 she lies part stripped of usable parts and with a significant list in Drummore harbour, near Stranraer.
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