HMS Shipham (M2726)

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Name HMS Shipham Completed 3 February 1956 Class and type Ham-class minesweeper Builder Brooke Marine		Namesake Shipham Fate Sold 1986 Launched 14 July 1955
Notes Pennant number(s) M2726 / IMS63

HMS Shipham 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 Shipham in Somerset.

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