Engineering:Ocean boarding vessel
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Short description: Ship type
Ocean boarding vessels (OBVs) were merchant ships taken over by the Royal Navy during the Second World War for the purpose of enforcing wartime blockades by intercepting and boarding foreign vessels.
Ships
| Ship | Date launched/ completed | Date requisitioned/ commissioned | History |
|---|---|---|---|
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | 1926 | Converted to "Catapult Armed Ship". Used for convoy escort | |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | June 1915 | 26 September 1940 | Torpedoed and sunk 6 May 1941[1] |
| HMS Cavina | August 1940 | July 1942 | Converted from a banana boat. Returned to Elders & Fyffes[2] |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | Rescued survivors of Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. October 1942[3]
Rescued survivors of missing name 14 March 1943.[4] | ||
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | 1935 | August 1940 | Sunk 4 February 1941 after torpedo attack previous day[5] |
| HMS Empire Audacity | 29 March 1939 | 11 November 1940 | Former German ship Hannover captured 7/8 March 1940 and put into British service. Commissioned as Ocean boarding vessel in November 1940 but sent for conversion to escort aircraft carrier in January 1941. |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | 28 September 1925 | August 1940 | The cross channel steamer was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a Barrage Balloon Vessel, converted to Ocean Boarding Vessel in 1943. She was sunk off Normandy by a Neger manned torpedo 18 August 1944.[6] |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | 17 April 1931 | 21 January 1941 | Former Hilary; restored as a merchantman 15 April 1942; recommissioned as an infantry landing and headquarters ship 1943; returned to civilian service after the war in 1945; scrapped 1959. |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | 1925 | 11 August 1940 | Bombed and sunk on 7 September 1940. Salvaged and converted to cargo ship Empire Explorer, never saw service as an ocean boarding vessel. Torpedoed and sunk in July 1942. |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | 1937 | 11 August 1940 | Bombed and sunk on 7 September 1940. Salvaged and converted to cargo ship Empire Chivalry, never saw service as an ocean boarding vessel. Sold postwar and renamed Planter. Scrapped 1958. |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.[7] | 1929 | Requisitioned by Admiralty in 1940. Sunk by Italian submarine missing name in N Atlantic, 15 July 1941. | |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | 1938 | 1941 | French ship Charles Plumier in 1938; seized by Royal Navy; returned to France 1945; sold to a Greek company and renamed Pleias 1964; scrapped 1968 |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.[7] | 1937 | Abandoned after being bombed, North Atlantic, 19 July 1941 | |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | 1920 | 1940 | Sailed with Atlantic convoy OB 288. Sunk 24 February 1941, no survivors |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | Participated in locating German supply ships after Bismarck had been sunk | ||
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | 1932 | Formerly Erin. Converted to Fighter catapult ship 1940. | |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. | 1922 | Converted to Fighter catapult ship in 1940. Sank after attacked by German aircraft 1941 | |
| Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.[8] | 1930 | 13 September 1940 | Bombed off Cape Cornwall 27 May 1941; repaired and returned to merchant use November 1941; sunk 29 September 1942[9] |
See also
- Armed boarding steamer – British vessels of similar purpose in First World War
- Hired armed vessels – British vessels that performed convoy escort duties, anti-privateer patrols, and ran errands during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and earlier.
Notes
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2010). "HMS Camito (F 77)". uboat.net. http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/906.html.
- ↑ "Cavina". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=17027&vessel=CAVINA.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2010). "Inversuir". uboat.net. http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/967.html.
- ↑ Moraes, Ozires (2011). "HMS Corinthian". sixtant.net. http://www.sixtant.net/2011/artigos.php?cat=the-royal-navy-in-south-atlantic&sub=royal-navy-ships-%28133-pages--150-images%29&tag=122%29b.-v.-corinthian-f-103.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2010). "HMS Crispin". uboat.net. http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/751.html.
- ↑ "Barrage Balloon Vessels". bbrclub.org. http://www.bbrclub.org/Barrage%20Balloon%20Vessels.htm.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Mason, Geoff. "Royal Navy Vessels Lost at Sea, Atlantic & Arctic 1939-45". http://www.naval-history.net/WW2BritishLossesbyArea01.htm.
- ↑ Stephenson-Knight, Marilyn (October 2006). "World War II - Page, C. P.". The Dover War Memorial Project. http://www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk/Casualties/WWIInot/SurnamesP.htm.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2010). "Registan". uboat.net. http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/2223.html.
References
- Cocker, M Aircraft-carrying ships of the Royal Navy, The History Press 2008 ISBN 978-0-7524-4633-2
- Colledge, J. J.; Hague, A.; O'Donoghue, K. (August 2021). Osborne, Richard. ed. "Ocean Boarding Vessels, Part 1". Warships: Marine News Supplement 75 (8): 420–424. ISSN 0966-6958.
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