HMS Malham (M2789)
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name: | HMS Malham |
Namesake: | Malham |
Builder: | Fairlie Yacht |
Launched: | 29 August 1958 |
Completed: | 10 December 1958 |
Fate: | transferred to Ghana, October 1959 |
Ghana | |
Name: | GNS Yogada |
Acquired: | October 1959 |
Commissioned: | 31 October 1959 |
Fate: | broken up, 1977 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Ham-class minesweeper |
Displacement: |
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Length: | 106 ft 6 in (32.46 m) |
Beam: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
Draught: | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
Propulsion: | 2 shaft Paxman 12YHAXM diesels, 1,100 bhp (820 kW) |
Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
Complement: | 2 officers, 13 ratings |
Armament: | 1 × 40 mm Bofors / 20 mm Oerlikon gun |
Notes: | Pennant number(s): M2789 / IMS89 |
HMS Malham 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 Malham in North Yorkshire.
References
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)
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