HMS Etchingham (M2625)
History | |
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Name | HMS Etchingham |
Namesake | Etchingham |
Builder | Ailsa Shipbuilding Company |
Launched | 9 December 1957 |
Completed | 27 June 1958 |
Fate | Sold for breaking 1967 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Ham class minesweeper |
Type | Minesweeper |
Displacement |
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Length | |
Beam | 21 ft 4 in (6.50 m) |
Draught | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
Complement | 2 officers, 13 ratings |
Armament | 1 × Bofors 40 mm gun or Oerlikon 20 mm cannon |
Notes | Pennant number(s): M2625 / IMS27 |
HMS Etchingham 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 Etchingham in East Sussex. In the 1960s Etchingham and a similar ship, Cardinham were in service with the Hong Kong Royal Naval Reserve, until the unit was disbanded on 31 March 1967.[1]
References
- ^ Personal knowledge, ex-member, HKRNR
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)