HMS Chilcompton
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HMS Chilcompton was a Ton class minesweeper built by Herd & Mckenzie and completed on the 23rd of October 1953. She had the prefix of a minesweeper - M1122. HMS Chilcompton was of Ton class, as well as 119 sister ships that all were named after places with the suffix 'ton'.
Chilcompton spent the first eight years of her life in the Operational Reserve fleet at Hythe before joining the 9th MSS in the Persian Gulf in May 1962. She was sold on 26th November 1971.
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[edit] Sources
- J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
