HMS Rampisham (M2786)

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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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