Name HMS Rackham Builder Saunders-Roe Fate Sold July 1967 Launched 27 April 1956 | Namesake Rackham Completed 26 June 1956 Class and type Ham-class minesweeper | |
HMS Rackham 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 Rackham in West Sussex.
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