HMS Pulham (M2721)

History
Name: HMS Pulham
Namesake: Pulham
Builder: Saunders-Roe
Launched: 10 January 1956
Completed: 10 January 1956
Fate: Sold August 1966
General characteristics
Class and type: Ham-class minesweeper
Notes: Pennant number(s): M2721 / IMS58

HMS Pulham 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 Pulham in Norfolk.

Further reading

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



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