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HMS Beckford (P3104) was one of 20 Ford-class patrol boats built for the Royal Navy in the 1950s. [1]Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ford.This boat was named after Beckford, Worcestershire.
HMS Shalford was one of 20 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 Shalford .
HMS Aberford was one of 20 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 Aberford, West Yorkshire. The Kenya Navy was granted Aberford as a gift following independence and the formation of the Navy.
This special version of the Squid was a failure however, with the first Ford-class boat, HMS Shalford being fitted with a normal three-barreled Squid and the remaining vessels with a more conventional anti-submarine armament of depth-charge throwers. A single Bofors 40 mm gun completed the armament. [2]
The J. B. Ford was a steamship bulk freighter that saw service for 112 years on the Great Lakes of the United States and Canada. The ship was launched in Lorain, Ohio on 12 December 1903 as the Edwin F. Holmes .
MV Benson Ford was constructed in 1924 at Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ecorse, Michigan, for the Ford Motor Company, [1] as one of two “state-of-the-art” bulk carriers [2] that were ordered by Henry Ford to transport raw materials such as coal and iron ore, the sister ship was MV Henry Ford II, which was built by the American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. [1]