HMS Tongham (M2735)
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| Name: | HMS Tongham |
| Namesake: | Tongham |
| Builder: | James Miller, St Monance |
| Launched: | 30 November 1955 |
| Completed: | 18 June 1957 |
| Fate: | Sold 1980 |
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| Class & type: | Ham-class minesweeper |
| Notes: | Pennant number(s): M2735 / IMS72 |
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.
References
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)
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