HMS Cranham

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Career RN Ensign
Builder: White (IOW)
Launched: 24 November 1953
Completed: 1 June 1954
Pennant number(s): M2701
IMS19
Fate: Sold September 1966

Currently a cruising vessel 'BURJA' (2007)

HMS Cranham was one of 93 Royal Navy ships of the Ham class of inshore minesweepers.

Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Cranham in Gloucestershire.

[edit] See also

  • Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)