HMS Greetham
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| Career |  |
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| Builder: | Herd & McKenzie |
| Launched: | 19th April 1954 |
| Completed: | 5th February 1955 |
| Pennant number(s): | M2632 IMS34 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Libya, 1962. Renamed Zuara.
Acquired by a Maltese tour operator & re-named Lady Davinia. For some years she had a distinctive red & white KITKAT paint scheme. Now laid up in Sliema Creek awaiting her fate (2007) |
HMS Greetham 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 Greetham, Lincolnshire or Greetham, Rutland.
[edit] Further reading
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)
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