Name HMS Whippingham Builder Jason Taylor Name Dahlia | Namesake Whippingham Completed 21 June 1955 Launched 28 August 1954 | |
Fate transferred to France, 1955 | ||
HMS Whippingham was a Ham-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy.
Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Whippingham on the Isle of Wight.
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HMS Whippingham (M2739) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA