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HMS Felmersham

1953 Ham-class inshore minesweeper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ5632406 ↗
Source-derived summary

HMS Felmersham 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 Felmersham in Bedfordshire.

References

Blackman, R.V.B. ed.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “HMS Felmersham” as 1953 Ham-class inshore minesweeper. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Felmersham, Ham-class and inshore can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 1953 Ham-class inshore minesweeper. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5632406. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “HMS Felmersham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.