HMS Pagham (M2716)
| History | |
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| Name: | HMS Pagham |
| Namesake: | Pagham |
| Builder: | Jones Slip |
| Launched: | 4 October 1955 |
| Completed: | 22 March 1956 |
| Fate: | Sold 1983 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Ham-class minesweeper |
| Notes: | Pennant number(s): M2716 / IMS53 |
HMS Pagham 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 Pagham in West Sussex.
In 1978 she was loaned to the Stranraer Sea Cadet Unit, and formally given to them on 1 May 1999.[1] After the closure of the Stranraer Sea Cadet unit the MOD/SCC sold her for a nominal fee to a private owner who stripped her of reclaimable parts. In March 2008 she lies part stripped of usable parts and with a significant list in Drummore harbour, near Stranraer.
References
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)
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