HMS Montford
| File:Wreck of the BNS Vigilance.jpg BNS Vigilance destroyed in 1967
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Montford |
| Launched | 10 October 1957 |
| Identification | P3124 |
| Fate | Sold on 9 September 1966 to Nigeria |
.svg){kind=small} Nigeria | |
| Name | Ibadan |
| Acquired | 9 September 1966 |
| Captured | By Biafra on 30 May 1967 |
 Biafra | |
| Name | Vigilance |
| Commissioned | 30 May 1967 |
| Fate | Sunk on 9 October 1967 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Ford-class seaward defence boat |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 117 ft 3 in (35.74 m) |
| Beam | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Draught | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Armament | |
HMS Montford 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 Montford, Shropshire. She was launched on 10 October 1957 and sold to Nigeria on 9 September 1957.[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.
References
- ^ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. p. 219. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- ^ Duyile, William Abiodun (August 2016). "Nature and Impact of Involvement of the Navy in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970". International Journal of Naval History. Vol. 13, no. 2.
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