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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}{{Use British English|date=January 2015}}{{Infobox ship imageShip image= | Ship caption= }}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= | United Kingdom|naval}} | Ship name= HMS Etchingham | Ship namesake=Etchingham | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= Ailsa Shipbuilding Company | Ship original cost= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= 9 December 1957 | Ship christened= | Ship completed= 27 June 1958 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= Sold for breaking 1967 | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge= }}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Ham class minesweeper | Ship type=Minesweeper | 120|LT|t|0}} standard- {{convert|164|LT|t|0}} full load
| 100|ft|m|abbr=on}} p/p- {{convert|106|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} o/a
| 21|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 5|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | Ship propulsion=*2 shaft Paxman 12YHAXM diesels | 14|kn|mph km/h|lk=in}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship complement=2 officers, 13 ratings | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament= 1 × Bofors 40 mm gun or Oerlikon 20 mm cannon | Ship armour= | Ship notes=Pennant number(s): M2625 / IMS27 }} | HMS Etchingham was one of 93 ships of the {{sclass2-|Ham|minesweeper|0}} of inshore minesweepers. Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Etchingham in East Sussex. In the 1960s Etchingham and a similar ship, Cardinham were in service with the Hong Kong Royal Naval Reserve, until the unit was disbanded on 31 March 1967.[1] References1. ^Personal knowledge, ex-member, HKRNR
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)
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