Name HMS Tongham Completed 18 June 1957 Class and type Ham-class minesweeper | Namesake Tongham Fate Sold 1980 Launched 30 November 1955 | |
Builder James Miller, St Monance | ||
HMS Tongham 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 Tongham in Surrey. Dry stored ashore at the Gareloch base, and on release used by the RNXS, based at Greenock.
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