Name HMS Rampisham Builder J. Bolson, Poole Fate Sold August 1966 Launched 1 May 1957 | Namesake Rampisham Completed 18 October 1957 Class and type Ham-class minesweeper | |
HMS Rampisham 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 Rampisham in Dorset.
She was renamed HMS Squirrel in December 1957, and reverted to Rampisham in December 1959.
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