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|Ship name= HMS ''Littleham''<br />
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|Ship displacement=*120 tons standard<br />
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'''HMS ''Littleham''''' was one of 93 ships of the {{sclass2|Ham|minesweeper|4}} of inshore [[minesweeper]]s.<br />
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Their names were all chosen from villages ending in ''-ham''. The minesweeper was named after [[Littleham]] in [[Devon]].<br />
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==References==<br />
*Blackman, R.V.B. ed. ''Jane's Fighting Ships'' (1953)<br />
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