HMS Brantingham (M2612)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Brantingham
Namesake: Brantingham
Builder: Ailsa Shipbuilding Company
Launched: 16 February 1953
Completed: 2 July 1953
Identification: Pennant number(s): M2612 / IMS12
Fate: Sold 1973
General characteristics
Class and type: Ham-class minesweeper
Displacement:
  • 120 long tons (122 t) standard
  • 164 long tons (167 t) full load
Length:
  • 100 ft (30 m) p/p
  • 106 ft 6 in (32.46 m) o/a
Beam: 21 ft 4 in (6.50 m)
Draught: 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Propulsion:
  • 2 shaft Paxman 12YHAXM diesels
  • 1,100 bhp (820 kW)
Speed: 14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Complement: 2 officers, 13 ratings
Armament: 1 × Bofors 40 mm gun or Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

HMS Brantingham 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 Brantingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

In 1958 it was transferred to the Royal Malayan Navy and renamed HMMS Temasek.[1]

References

  1. ↑ British Association of Malaysia; British Association of Malaysia and Singapore (1958). Malaysia. p. 51. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  • Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)



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