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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | United Kingdom|naval}} | Ship name= HMS Harpham | Ship namesake=Harpham | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= Jones Slip | Ship original cost= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= 14 September 1954 | Ship christened= | Ship completed= 22 December 1954 | 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= Transferred to Libya 1962 | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=Libya | Libya|naval}} | Ship name=Brak | Ship acquired=1962 | Ship fate=Broken up 1973
}}{{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): M2634 / IMS36
}} | HMS Harpham was one of 93 ships of the {{sclass2-|Ham|minesweeper|0}} of inshore minesweepers. She was built in 1954 by the Jones Shipyard in Buckie, Moray. SHe was sold to Libya in 1962 and renamed Brak.[1] She remained in Libyan service until she was broken up in 1973. Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Harpham in the East Riding of Yorkshire. References1. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/ship.php?ShipID=5100 | title = HMS Harpham | accessdate = 2016-11-26 | publisher = Cranston Fine Arts|work = battleships-cruisers.co.uk}}
- Blackman, R.V.B. ed. Jane's Fighting Ships (1953)
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