Ocean boarding vessel

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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

Ship	Date launched/ completed	Date requisitioned/ commissioned	History
HMS Ariguani	1926		converted to "Catapult Armed Ship". Used for convoy escort
HMS Empire Audacity	29 Mar 1939	11 Nov 1940	Former German ship Hannover captured 7/8 March 1940; converted to escort aircraft carrier 1941; sunk by U-751, 21 December 1941
HMS Camito	June 1915	26 Sep 1940	Torpedoed and sunk 6 May 1941^[1]
HMS Corinthian			Rescued survivors of SS Duchess of Atholl Oct 1942^[2]
HMS Crispin	1935	Aug 1940	Sunk 4 Feb 1941 after torpedo attack previous day^[3]
HMS Hilary	17 Apr 1931	21 Jan 1941	Former 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.
SS Inanda	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.
SS Inkosi	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.
HMS Lady Somers^[4]	1929		Requisitioned by Admiralty in 1940. Sunk by Italian submarine Morosini in N Atlantic, 15 July 1941.
HMS Largs	1938	1941	French 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
HMS Malvernian^[4]	1937		abandoned after being bombed, North Atlantic, July 19, 1941
HMS Manistee	1920	1940	sailed with Arctic convoy OB 288 and sunk 24 February 1941, no survivors
HMS Marsdale			Participated in locating German supply ships after the Bismarck had been sunk
HMS Maplin	1932		Formerly Erin. Converted to Fighter catapult ship 1940.
HMS Patia	1922		converted to Fighter catapult ship in 1940. Sank after attacked by German aircraft 1941
HMS Registan^[5]	1930	13 Sep 1940	Bombed off Cape Cornwall 27 May 1941; repaired and returned to merchant use Nov 1941; sunk 29 Sep, 1942^[6]

Notes

↑ Helgason, Guðmundur (1995-2010). "HMS Camito (F 77)". uboat.net. Retrieved 30 Jan 2010. Check date values in: |date= (help)
↑ Helgason, Guðmundur (1995-2010). "Inversuir". uboat.net. Retrieved 30 Jan 2010. Check date values in: |date= (help)
↑ Helgason, Guðmundur (1995-2010). "HMS Crispin". uboat.net. Retrieved 30 Jan 2010. Check date values in: |date= (help)
↑ 4.0 4.1 Mason, Geoff. "ROYAL NAVY VESSELS LOST AT SEA, ATLANTIC & ARCTIC 1939-45". Retrieved 16 July 2010.
↑ Stephenson-Knight, Marilyn (2006-10). "World War II - Page, C. P.". THE DOVER WAR MEMORIAL PROJECT. Retrieved 30 Jan 2010. Check date values in: |date= (help)
↑ Helgason, Guðmundur (1995-2010). "Registan". uboat.net. Retrieved 30 Jan 2010. Check date values in: |date= (help)

References

Cocker, M Aircraft-carrying ships of the Royal Navy, The History Press 2008 ISBN 978-0-7524-4633-2

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