[Milsurplus] "Ocean Boarding Vessel" ?

[Gordon Smith]

Hi Hue,
Per Wikipedia: "Ocean boarding vessels (OBVs) were merchant ships taken over by the Royal Navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy during the Second World War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War for the purpose of enforcing wartime blockades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade by intercepting and boarding foreign vessels." 
 
Link is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_boarding_vessel
 
73, Gordon KJ6IKT

> On 03/20/2024 8:27 PM EDT Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
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> Do you know what is an “ocean boarding vessel” ?
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> I was looking thru ‘ONI 201 British Naval Auxiliaries’ and i saw this designation for the ‘Corinthian’ and ‘Vienna’,
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> but they didn’t look fierce enough to be boarding any other. I thought like, “Heave to, and prepare to be boarded!”
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> I was looking at the ONI 201 series before i get ready to Ebay it. Looking at all those ship photos makes me want to
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> own them all, or at least own some ship models. Considering how many ships there were, it seems a whole lot of
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> radios must have gone to scrap along with the vessels.
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> Anyway, “boarding vessel” ? This explained it: “…some ships considered unseaworthy have been relegated to
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> serving as accommodation vessels.” Like, they were parked in harbor and used as barracks.
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> ( ONI 201 series, Dec. 1944 )
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> -Hue Miller
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