HMS Arlingham was one of 93 ships of the Ham class of inshore minesweepers.

The names of these ships were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. This minesweeper was named after Arlingham in Gloucestershire.

In 1969, HMS Arlingham was rammed by a Spanish Customs launch near Gibraltar, which was later the subject of a formal complaint.^{[citation needed]}

• Blackman, Raymond V.B., ed. Jane's Fighting Ships 1952–1953. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953.