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 and sold to Nigeria on . Renamed NNS "Ibadan, she was captured at the declaration of independence of Biafra by independentists in Calabar. She saw action as BNS "Vigilance during Nigerian Civil War and was sunk on at Port Harcourt.