HMS Mickleham was one of 93 ships of the of inshore minesweepers.
Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Mickleham in Surrey.
History
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)
- Sold by admiralty in 1966.
- Purchased by John Stanley Gordon of Gordon Keeble sports car fame.
- Renamed 'Katherine of Gower'
- Converted to charter yacht and completed in 1970s.
- Sold to Saudi Arabian interests in the 1980s.
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