HMS Whippingham (M2739)
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name: | HMS Whippingham |
Namesake: | Whippingham |
Builder: | Jason Taylor |
Launched: | 28 August 1954 |
Completed: | 21 June 1955 |
Fate: | transferred to France, 1955 |
France | |
Name: | Dahlia |
Acquired: | 1955 |
Struck: | 1992 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Ham-class minesweeper |
Notes: | Pennant number(s): M2739 / IMS76 |
HMS Whippingham was a Ham-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy.
Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Whippingham on the Isle of Wight.
References
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)
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