Minesweeper of the Bangor class
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Minesweeper |
| Class | Bangor |
| Pennant | J 123 |
| Built by | Lobnitz & Co. Ltd. (Renfrew, Scotland) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 15 Oct, 1940 |
| Launched | 16 Jun, 1941 |
| Commissioned | 19 Dec, 1941 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| 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. D.R. Hopking, RNVR
17 January 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List |
| 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. |
