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词条 Ocean boarding vessel
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  1. Ships

  2. See also

  3. Notes

  4. References

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Ocean boarding vessels (OBVs) were merchant ships taken over by the Royal Navy for the purpose of enforcing wartime blockades by intercepting and boarding foreign vessels.

Ships

ShipDate launched/ completedDate requisitioned/ commissionedHistory
Ariguani}}1926Converted to "Catapult Armed Ship". Used for convoy escort
HMS Empire Audacity29 Mar 193911 Nov 1940Former 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.
Camito|F77|6}}June 191526 Sep 1940Torpedoed and sunk 6 May 1941[1]
Corinthian}}Duchess of Atholl}} Oct 1942[2]

Rescued survivors of {{RMS|Empress of Canada|1922}} 14 March 1943.[3]

Crispin}}1935Aug 1940Sunk 4 Feb 1941 after torpedo attack previous day[4]
Fratton}} 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.[5]
Hilary|1931|6}}17 Apr 193121 Jan 1941Former SS 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.
Inanda|1925|6}}192511 August 1940Bombed 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.
Inkosi|1937|6}}193711 August 1940Bombed 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.
Lady Somers}}[6]1929Italian submarine|Morosini2} in N Atlantic, 15 July 1941.
Largs}}19381941French ship MV Charles Plumier in 1938; seized by Royal Navy; returned to France 1945; sold to a Greek company and renamed MV Pleias 1964; scrapped 1968
Malvernian}}[6]1937abandoned after being bombed, North Atlantic, 19 July 1941
Manistee}}19201940sailed with Arctic convoy OB 288 and sunk 24 February 1941, no survivors
Marsdale}}Participated in locating German supply ships after Bismarck had been sunk
Maplin}}1932Formerly Erin. Converted to Fighter catapult ship 1940.
Patia|1922|6}} 1922converted to Fighter catapult ship in 1940. Sank after attacked by German aircraft 1941
Registan}}[7]193013 Sep 1940Bombed off Cape Cornwall 27 May 1941; repaired and returned to merchant use Nov 1941; sunk 29 Sep 1942[8]

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

1. ^{{cite web | last = Helgason | first = Guðmundur | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = HMS Camito (F 77) | work = uboat.net | publisher = | date = 1995–2010 | url = http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/906.html | doi = | accessdate = 30 Jan 2010 }}
2. ^{{cite web | last = Helgason | first = Guðmundur | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Inversuir | work = uboat.net | publisher = | date = 1995–2010 | url = http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/967.html | doi = | accessdate = 30 Jan 2010 }}
3. ^{{cite web | last = Moraes | first = Ozires | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = HMS Corinthian | work = sixtant.net | publisher = | date = 2011 | url = 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 | doi = | accessdate = 4 Jan 2015 }}
4. ^{{cite web | last = Helgason | first = Guðmundur | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = HMS Crispin | work = uboat.net | publisher = | date = 1995–2010 | url = http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/751.html | doi = | accessdate = 30 Jan 2010 }}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bbrclub.org/Barrage%20Balloon%20Vessels.htm |title=Barrage Balloon Vessels |publisher=bbrclub.org |accessdate=10 August 2014}}
6. ^1 {{Cite web|last=Mason|first=Geoff |title=Royal Navy Vessels Lost at Sea, Atlantic & Arctic 1939-45|date= |url=http://www.naval-history.net/WW2BritishLossesbyArea01.htm |accessdate=16 July 2010 }}
7. ^{{cite web | last = Stephenson-Knight | first = Marilyn | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = World War II - Page, C. P. | work = THE DOVER WAR MEMORIAL PROJECT | publisher = | date = October 2006 | url = http://www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk/Casualties/WWIInot/SurnamesP.htm | doi = | accessdate = 30 Jan 2010 }}
8. ^{{cite web | last = Helgason | first = Guðmundur | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Registan | work = uboat.net | publisher = | date = 1995–2010 | url = http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/2223.html | doi = | accessdate = 30 Jan 2010 }}

References

  • Cocker, M Aircraft-carrying ships of the Royal Navy, The History Press 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-7524-4633-2}}
{{Warship types of the 19th & 20th centuries}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ocean Boarding Vessel}}

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