In 1968 the vessel was sold to Nigeria and renamed NNS Bonny.

Gifford was a Ford-class seaward defence boat constructed for the Royal Navy.

The names of the class ships were all chosen from villages ending in "-ford".

Renamed NNS Bonny,[1] she fought in the Nigerian Civil War against Biafra.

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