HMS Tresham (M2736)
History | |
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Name: | HMS Tresham |
Namesake: | Tresham |
Builder: | Morgan Giles |
Launched: | 11 May 1954 |
Completed: | 10 November 1955 |
Fate: | Sold 1966 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Ham-class minesweeper |
Notes: | Pennant number(s): M2736 / IMS73 |
HMS Tresham 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 Tresham in Gloucestershire.
References
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)
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