Please answer the following question: Information: - HMS Lasham was one of 93 ships of the Ham - class of inshore minesweepers . Their names were all chosen from villages ending in - ham . The minesweeper was named after Lasham in Hampshire . - Lasham is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is northwest of Alton, east of the A339 road between Basingstoke and Alton. In the centre of the village is the church of St Mary (C of E) and a public house, the Royal Oak. - Hampshire (; abbreviated Hants, archaically known as the County of Southampton) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, the former capital city of England. Hampshire is the most populous ceremonial county in the United Kingdom (excluding the metropolitan counties) with almost half of the county's population living within the South Hampshire conurbation which includes the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth. The larger South Hampshire metropolitan area has a population of 1,547,000. Hampshire is notable for housing the birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force. It is bordered by Dorset to the west, Wiltshire to the north-west, Berkshire to the north, Surrey to the north-east, and West Sussex to the east. The southern boundary is the coastline of the English Channel and the Solent, facing the Isle of Wight. After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'hms lasham ' with the relationship of 'operator'. Choices: - royal air force - royal navy - southern - united kingdom
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royal navy