HMS Montford

HMS Montford was one of 23 boats of the 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 Montford, Shropshire. She was launched on 10/10/1957 and sold to Nigeria on 9/9/1957. Renamed NNS Ibadan, she was captured at the declaration of independence of Biafra by independantists in Calabar. She saw action as BNS Vigilance during Nigerian Civil War and was sunk on 10/9/1967 at Port Harcourt.