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Ocean boarding vessels (OBVs) were merchant ships taken over by the
Ocean boarding vessels (OBVs) were merchant ships taken over by the Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Fr ...
during the Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
for the purpose of enforcing wartime blockade
A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force.
A blockade differs from an embargo or sanction, which are leg ...
s by intercepting and boarding foreign vessels.
Ships
See also
*Armed boarding steamer
An armed boarding steamer (or "armed boarding ship", or "armed boarding vessel") was a merchantman that the British Royal Navy converted to a warship during the First World War. AB steamers or vessels had the role of enforcing wartime blockades b ...
– British vessels of similar purpose in First World War
*Hired armed vessels
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Royal Navy made use of a considerable number of hired armed vessels. These were generally smaller vessels, often cutters and luggers, that the Navy used for duties ranging from carrying and pa ...
– 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
References
*Cocker, M ''Aircraft-carrying ships of the Royal Navy'', The History Press 2008 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ocean Boarding Vessel Ship types Ships of the Royal Navy