HMS Gifford

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

Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ford. This boat was named after Gifford. She was launched on 30 June 1954 and sold to Nigeria in 1968. Renamed NNS Bonny, she fought in the Nigerian Civil War against Biafra. She was decommissioned in 1983.

Current state
NNS Bonny is preserved in the Nigerian War Museum at Umuahia as a museum exhibit.