Ocean boarding vessels (OBVs) were merchant ships taken over by the
Royal Navy during the Second World War 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 ...
s by intercepting and boarding foreign vessels.
Ships
See also
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Armed boarding steamer – British vessels of similar purpose in First World War
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Hired armed vessels
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Royal Navy used 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 passeng ...
– 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
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Ship types
Ships of the Royal Navy