Allied Warships

HMS Seaham (J 123)

Minesweeper of the Bangor class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMinesweeper
ClassBangor 
PennantJ 123 
Built byLobnitz & Co. Ltd. (Renfrew, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down15 Oct 1940 
Launched16 Jun 1941 
Commissioned19 Dec 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Allocated to Fishery Protection services in 1946.
Sold to Burma on 11 August 1947 for use as a relief pilot vessel and survey ship based in Rangoon being renamed Chinthe (Lion).
Sunk in 1948 by an uncharted Japanese mine.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Robert Ernest Brett, RNR
1 November 1941 – 17 January 1945
Promoted to A/Cdr. in later half of 1944
DSO awarded on 17 December 1943
RD awarded on 7 April 1944
DSC awarded on 26 May 1944

T/A/Lt.Cdr. Desmond Roberts Hopking, RNVR
17 January 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List

 

Commands listed for HMS Seaham (J 123)

Please note that we're still working on this section.

CommanderFromTo
1Robert Ernest Brett, RNR1 Nov 194117 Jan 1945
2Desmond Roberts Hopking, RNVR17 Jan 19457 Dec 1945

You can help improve our commands section
Click here to Submit events/comments/updates for this vessel.
Please use this if you spot mistakes or want to improve this ships page.

Noteable events involving Seaham include:


12 Jul 1943
The Italian submarine Bronzo was captured off Syracuse, Sicily by the British minesweepers HMS Seaham, HMS Boston, HMS Poole and HMS Cromarty.

Bronzo was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS P 714. On 29 Janaury 1944 she was transferred to the Free French as Narval.

Return to the Allied Warships section