HMS Thornham (M2793)

HMS Thornham was one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers.

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Thornham
Namesake	Thornham
Builder	Jason Taylor
Launched	18 March 1957
Completed	20 June 1958
Fate	Broken up 1985
General characteristics
Class & type	Ham-class minesweeper
Notes	Pennant number: M2793

Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Thornham in Norfolk.

She was converted in 1967 at Rosyth Dockyard for use by the Aberdeen Universities' Royal Naval Unit.

In 1978, HMS Thornham became the first foreign warship to visit the Danish city of Roskilde since the Viking times,^[1] when the five Skuldelev ships were sunk in the waterway of Peberrenden, 20 km north of the city.

HMS Thornham gave its ship's bell to Thornham Church in 1969, and it is rung to signal the two minutes' silence on Remembrance Sunday.