HMSBramham on the River Clyde, 1942 (IWM)
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMSBramham
Ordered	4 September 1940
Builder	Alexander Stephen and Sons
Laid down	7 April 1941
Launched	29 January 1942
Commissioned	16 June 1942
Decommissioned	March 1943
Identification	Pennant number: L51
Fate	Transferred to Royal Hellenic Navy, March 1943.
Greece
Name	Themistoklis
Namesake	Themistocles
Acquired	March 1943
Commissioned	1943
Decommissioned	1959
Stricken	12 November 1959
Fate	Returned to Royal Navy, 12 November 1959 and scrapped 1960
General characteristics
Class & type	Type II Hunt-classdestroyer
Displacement	1,050 long tons (1,067 t) standard; 1,490 long tons (1,514 t) full load
Length	85.34 m (280.0 ft)
Beam	9.62 m (31.6 ft)
Draught	2.51 m (8 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft Parsons geared turbines; 19,000 shp
Speed	25.5 kn (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph)
Range	3,600 nmi (6,670 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	164
Armament	6 ×QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX AAA - 2 × 412.7mm Vickers, 2 ×20 mm 6 Thornycroftdepth charge throwers

HMSBramham (L51) was aHunt-classdestroyer of theRoyal Navy laid down inAlexander Stephen and Sons shipyardsGovan,Scotland on 7 April 1941. She was launched on 29 January 1942 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 16 June 1942. She was named after theBramham Moor Hunt and has been the only Royal Navy warship to bear the name. She was adopted by the town ofBeverley in theEast Riding of Yorkshire during theWarship Week savings campaign of 1942.

Bramham was one of two ships that returned to rescue the survivors ofHMS Curacoa.^[1]

In the following August she served inOperation Pedestal, a mission to deliver supplies to the besieged island ofMalta, as an escorting destroyer. On 12 August she rescued survivors fromDeucalion. In the last stages of the operationBramham along with two other destroyers,Ledbury andPenn took on the final tow of the tankerOhio into Malta.^[2]

In March 1943Bramham was transferred to theRoyal Hellenic Navy and renamedThemistoklis after the ancient Greek commanderThemistocles. She served until 1959 and was then returned to the Royal Navy on 12 November 1959. She was scrapped in Greece in 1960.^[3]

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