HMS Bramham (L51)
 HMS Brahmam on the River Clyde, 1942 (IWM) | |
| History | |
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Bramham |
| Ordered: | 4 September 1940 |
| Builder: | Alexander Stephen and Sons |
| Laid down: | 7 April 1941 |
| Launched: | 29 January 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 16 June 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | March 1943 |
| Identification: | pennant number: L51 |
| Fate: |
Transferred to Royal Hellenic Navy, March 1943. Returned to Royal Navy, 12 November 1959 |
| Status: | Scrapped 1960 |
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| Name: | Themistoklis |
| Namesake: | Themistocles |
| Acquired: | March 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 1959 |
| Struck: | 12 November 1959 |
| Fate: | Returned to Royal Navy 1959 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Hunt-class destroyer |
HMS Bramham (L51) was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down in Alexander Stephen and Sons shipyards Govan, Scotland on 7 April 1941. She was launched on 29 January 1942 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 16 June 1942. She has been the only Royal Navy warship to bear the name. She was adopted by the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire during the Warship Week savings campaign of 1942.
Royal Navy service
Bramham was one of two ships that returned to rescue the survivors of HMS Curacoa.[1]
In the following August she served in Operation Pedestal, a mission to deliver supplies to the besieged island of Malta, as an escorting destroyer. In the last stages of the operation Bramham along with two other destroyers, Ledbury and Penn took on the final tow of the tanker Ohio into Malta.[2]
Royal Hellenic Navy service
In March 1943 Bramham was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy and renamed Themistoklis after the ancient Greek philosopher Themistocles. She served until 1959 and was then returned to the Royal Navy on 12 November 1959. She was scrapped in Greece in 1960.[3]
References
- ↑ http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80015884 - Recollection of Edgar Wilson, Seaman serving on board HMS Curacoa, Imperial War Museum interview.
- ↑ http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DE-Bramham.htm
- ↑ Raymond V B Blackman (ed.). Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-4,. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd,. p. 112.
Publications
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
- The Hunts: a history of the design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of this class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II, John English, World Ship Society, 1987, ISBN 0-905617-44-4
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