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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | UK|naval}} | Ship name=HMS Aberford (P3102) | Ship namesake= | UK}} | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Yarrow | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=23 September 1952 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sold 27 October 1964 to Kenya. | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=Kenya | Kenya|naval}} | Ship name=KNS Nyati | Ship namesake= | Kenya}} | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= 16 December 1964 | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sold for scrapping 1971. | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Ford class seaward defence boat | Ship displacement=*120 tons standard | 117|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}} | 20|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 6|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=*1 × Foden diesel (Centre shaft)- 2 × Paxman 12YHAX 550hp Diesels (Outer shafts)
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}} | 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. She was renamed KNS (for Kenya Navy Ship) Nyati, and was the first ship in the Kenyan Navy. She was withdrawn and laid up in the late 1960s off the Southern Engineering yard in Mbaraki Creek in Mombasa and eventually beached and scrapped in 1975. References{{DEFAULTSORT:Aberford}}{{UK-mil-ship-stub}} 3 : Ford-class seaward defence boats|Royal Navy ship names|1952 ships |