Ocean boarding vessel
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Ocean boarding vessels(OBVs) were merchant ships taken over by theRoyal Navyduring theSecond World Warfor the purpose of enforcing wartimeblockadesby intercepting and boarding foreign vessels.
Ships
[edit]| Ship | Date launched/ completed | Date requisitioned/ commissioned | History |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMSAriguani | 1926 | Converted to "Catapult Armed Ship".Used for convoy escort | |
| HMSCamito | June 1915 | 26 September 1940 | Torpedoed and sunk 6 May 1941[1] |
| HMSCavina | August 1940 | July 1942 | Converted from abanana boat.Returned toElders & Fyffes[2] |
| HMSCorinthian | Rescued survivors ofDuchess of AthollOctober 1942[3]
Rescued survivors ofRMSEmpress of Canada14 March 1943.[4] | ||
| HMSCrispin | 1935 | August 1940 | Sunk 4 February 1941 after torpedo attack previous day[5] |
| HMSEmpire Audacity | 29 March 1939 | 11 November 1940 | Former German shipHannovercaptured 7/8 March 1940 and put into British service. Commissioned as Ocean boarding vessel in November 1940 but sent for conversion toescort aircraft carrierin January 1941. |
| HMSFratton | 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 aNegermanned torpedo 18 August 1944.[6] |
| HMSHilary | 17 April 1931 | 21 January 1941 | FormerHilary;restored as a merchantman 15 April 1942; recommissioned as aninfantry landing and headquarters ship1943; returned to civilian service after the war in 1945; scrapped 1959. |
| Inanda | 1925 | 11 August 1940 | Bombed and sunk on 7 September 1940. Salvaged and converted to cargo shipEmpire Explorer,never saw service as an ocean boarding vessel. Torpedoed and sunk in July 1942. |
| Inkosi | 1937 | 11 August 1940 | Bombed and sunk on 7 September 1940. Salvaged and converted to cargo shipEmpire Chivalry,never saw service as an ocean boarding vessel. Sold postwar and renamedPlanter.Scrapped 1958. |
| HMSLady Somers[7] | 1929 | Requisitioned by Admiralty in 1940. Sunk by Italian submarineMorosiniin N Atlantic, 15 July 1941. | |
| HMSLargs | 1938 | 1941 | French shipCharles Plumierin 1938; seized by Royal Navy; returned to France 1945; sold to a Greek company and renamedPleias1964; scrapped 1968 |
| HMSMalvernian[7] | 1937 | Abandoned after being bombed, North Atlantic, 19 July 1941 | |
| HMSManistee | 1920 | 1940 | Sailed with Atlantic convoy OB 288. Sunk 24 February 1941, no survivors |
| HMSMarsdale | Participated in locating German supply ships afterBismarckhad been sunk | ||
| HMSMaplin | 1932 | FormerlyErin.Converted to Fighter catapult ship 1940. | |
| Patia | 1922 | Converted toFighter catapult shipin 1940. Sank after attacked by German aircraft 1941 | |
| HMSRegistan[8] | 1930 | 13 September 1940 | Bombed offCape Cornwall27 May 1941; repaired and returned to merchant use November 1941; sunk 29 September 1942[9] |
See also
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2010)."HMS Camito (F 77)".uboat.net.Retrieved30 January2010.
- ^"Cavina".Scottish Built Ships.Caledonian Maritime Research Trust.Retrieved26 January2021.
- ^Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2010)."Inversuir".uboat.net.Retrieved30 January2010.
- ^Moraes, Ozires (2011)."HMS Corinthian".sixtant.net.Retrieved4 January2015.
- ^Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2010)."HMS Crispin".uboat.net.Retrieved30 January2010.
- ^"Barrage Balloon Vessels".bbrclub.org.Retrieved10 August2014.
- ^abMason, Geoff."Royal Navy Vessels Lost at Sea, Atlantic & Arctic 1939-45".Retrieved16 July2010.
- ^Stephenson-Knight, Marilyn (October 2006)."World War II - Page, C. P."The Dover War Memorial Project.Retrieved30 January2010.
- ^Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2010)."Registan".uboat.net.Retrieved30 January2010.
References
[edit]- Cocker, MAircraft-carrying ships of the Royal Navy,The History Press 2008ISBN978-0-7524-4633-2
- 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.ISSN0966-6958.