HMS Montford

HMS Montford was one of 23 boats of the Ford class of patrol boats built for the Royal Navy in the 1950s.

She was launched on 10 October 1957 and sold to Nigeria on 9 September 1966.

[1] Renamed NNS Ibadan,[citation needed] she was captured at the declaration of independence of Biafra by independentists in Calabar.

[2] She saw action as BNS Vigilance during Nigerian Civil War and was sunk on 9 October 1967 at Port Harcourt.

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