History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Warmingham
NamesakeWarmingham
BuilderThornycroft
Launched23 April 1954
Completed30 November 1956
FateSold 1983
General characteristics
Class & typeHam-class minesweeper
NotesPennant number(s): M2737 / IMS74

HMS Warmingham was one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers. All of the ships in this class had names that were chosen from villages ending in -ham. HMS Warmingham was named after Warmingham, in Cheshire, England.

References

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

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Ham-class minesweeper

(IMS70) HMS Thatcham (IMS90) HMS Thornham HMS Tibenham (IMS71) HMS Tongham (IMS72) HMS Tresham (IMS73) HMS Warmingham (IMS74) HMS Wexham (IMS75) HMS Whippingham

List of ship names of the Royal Navy (U–Z)

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St Cross Church, Appleton Thorn

Association because during the Second World War a Royal Naval Air Service station, HMS Blackcap, was in the village. Its ensign hangs in the church. Cheshire portal

Chester Cathedral

crossing pier are monuments which include a cenotaph to the casualties in HMS Chester in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 who included the 16-year-old John

St Michael's Church, Coppenhall

Attendants of the Royal Navy Auxiliary Reserve, who died in the torpedoing of HMS Formidable during World War I, in 1915. Cheshire portal Listed buildings