|
History |
United Kingdom |
Name | Montford |
Launched | 10 October 1957 |
Identification | P3124 |
Fate | Sold on 9 September 1966 to Nigeria |
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 |
- 120 tons standard
- 160 tons full load
|
Length | 117 ft 3 in (35.74 m) |
Beam | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Draught | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
Propulsion |
- 1 × Foden diesel (Centre shaft)
- 2 × Paxman 12YHAX 550 hp (410 kW) Diesels (Outer shafts)
|
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 1966.[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.
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