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<div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:StateLibQld_1_48656_Suva_(ship).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/StateLibQld_1_48656_Suva_%28ship%29.jpg/220px-StateLibQld_1_48656_Suva_%28ship%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/StateLibQld_1_48656_Suva_%28ship%29.jpg/330px-StateLibQld_1_48656_Suva_%28ship%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/StateLibQld_1_48656_Suva_%28ship%29.jpg/440px-StateLibQld_1_48656_Suva_%28ship%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="584" /></a><figcaption>HMS <i>Suva</i> in 1919</figcaption></figure> <p>An <b>armed boarding steamer</b> (or "armed boarding ship", or "armed boarding vessel") was a merchantman that the British <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> converted to a warship during the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>. AB steamers or vessels had the role of enforcing wartime <a href="/wiki/Blockade" title="Blockade">blockades</a> by intercepting and <a href="/wiki/Boarding_(attack)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boarding (attack)">boarding</a> foreign vessels. The boarding party would inspect the foreign ship to determine whether to detain the ship and send it into port or permit it to go on its way. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armed_boarding_steamer&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 28 September 1914 Admiral <a href="/wiki/John_Jellicoe,_1st_Earl_Jellicoe" title="John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe">John Jellicoe</a>, commander-in-chief of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Fleet" title="Grand Fleet">Grand Fleet</a>, sent a telegram in which he pointed out that he did not have enough destroyers available to enforce the blockade. Furthermore, the weather was often too severe for the destroyers. Although Jellicoe did not mention it, after the loss on 22 September of the cruisers <a href="/wiki/HMS_Cressy_(1899)" title="HMS Cressy (1899)">HMS <i>Cressy</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Aboukir_(1900)" title="HMS Aboukir (1900)"><i>Aboukir</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/HMS_Hogue_(1900)" title="HMS Hogue (1900)"><i>Hogue</i></a>, he also did not want large warships making themselves sitting targets for submarines by stopping to examine merchant vessels.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman201462_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman201462-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first request was for 12 vessels, all to be capable of 12–14 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (22–26 km/h; 14–16 mph), be able to carry enough coal for five days at sea, have <a href="/wiki/Wireless_telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Wireless telegraph">wireless</a>, and have boats suitable for boarding parties to use. Each armed boarding steamer was to carry two <a href="/wiki/QF_3-pounder_Vickers" title="QF 3-pounder Vickers">3-pounder guns</a> (47 mm/L50) and be under the command of an officer from the Royal Navy. These 12 vessels were requisitioned in October and completed by mid to late-November. Other vessels followed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman201462_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman201462-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Navy found that cross-Channel passenger vessels were particularly suitable because of their large cargo capacity. As experience with the programme increased, the armed boarding vessels received heavier armament.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman201462_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman201462-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Royal Navy realized the need for heavier armament after the German auxiliary cruiser <a href="/wiki/SMS_Meteor_(1903)" title="SMS Meteor (1903)">SMS <i>Meteor</i></a> attacked and sank the armed boarding ship <a href="/wiki/SS_The_Ramsey" title="SS The Ramsey">HMS <i>Ramsey</i></a> on 8 August 1915. The navy wanted to arm the boarding ships with some obsolete 14-inch torpedo tubes, and modern 4-inch (100 mm) guns (possibly the <a href="/wiki/BL_4-inch_Mk_VII_naval_gun" title="BL 4-inch Mk VII naval gun">BL 4-inch Mk VII naval gun</a>); <i>Meteor</i> had sunk <i>Ramsey</i> using both a torpedo, and gunfire from two <a href="/wiki/8.8_cm_SK_L/45_naval_gun" title="8.8 cm SK L/45 naval gun">88 mm</a> (3.5-inch) guns.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Navy pressed the vessels into other roles. Some carried depth charges for anti-submarine duty while escorting convoys. Still others, particularly in the Mediterranean, served as transports.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Alouette&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Alouette (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Alouette</i></a> – returned to owners 21 November 1919</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Amsterdam_(1914)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Amsterdam (1914) (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Amsterdam</i></a> – ABS from October 1914 until returned to owners 29 September 1919</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Anglia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Anglia (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Anglia</i></a> – 1913 yacht purchased September 1939 and sold 1946</li> <li><a href="/wiki/TSS_Manx_Maid_(1910)" title="TSS Manx Maid (1910)">HMS <i>Caesarea</i></a> – Launched in 1910 and served as ABS 31 October 1914 to December 1915. Became <i>Manxmaid</i> and served as <i>Brucce</i> in WWII.</li> <li>HMS <a href="/wiki/TSS_Cambria_(1897)" title="TSS Cambria (1897)"><i>Cambria</i></a> – Launched in 1897 and hired as ABS on 8 August 1914; hospital ship 7 August 1915</li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Carron" title="HMS Carron">HMS <i>Carron</i></a> – Launched in 1906; ABS from 22 November 1914 to 9 October 1919.</li> <li>HMS <a href="/wiki/TSS_City_of_Belfast_(1893)" title="TSS City of Belfast (1893)"><i>City of Belfast</i></a> – launched 1893; ABS from 30 October 1914 to 3 October 1919</li> <li>HMS <a href="/wiki/TSS_Duchess_of_Devonshire_(1897)" title="TSS Duchess of Devonshire (1897)"><i>Duchess of Devonshire</i></a> – Launched 1891; ABS from 30 October 1814 to 6 November 1919</li> <li>HMS <a href="/wiki/TSS_Duke_of_Albany" title="TSS Duke of Albany"><i>Duke of Albany</i></a> – sunk by <a href="/wiki/SM_UB-27" title="SM UB-27">SM <i>UB-27</i></a> on 26 August 1916 20 miles east of the <a href="/wiki/Pentland_Skerries" title="Pentland Skerries">Pentland Skerries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent2006148_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent2006148-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>HMS <a href="/wiki/TSS_Duke_of_Clarence" title="TSS Duke of Clarence"><i>Duke of Clarence</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Rushen_Castle" title="SS Rushen Castle">HMS <i>Duke of Cornwall</i></a></li> <li>HMS <a href="/wiki/SS_Dundee" title="SS Dundee"><i>Dundee</i></a> – took part in the <a href="/wiki/Action_of_16_March_1917" title="Action of 16 March 1917">action of 16 March 1917</a>, the destruction of the <a href="/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German</a> <a href="/wiki/Auxiliary_cruiser" class="mw-redirect" title="Auxiliary cruiser">auxiliary cruiser</a> <a href="/wiki/SMS_Leopard_(1912)" title="SMS Leopard (1912)">SMS <i>Leopard</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/SM_UC-49" title="SM UC-49"><i>UC-49</i></a> torpedoed <i>Dundee</i> on 2 September 1917 off the <a href="/wiki/Isles_of_Scilly" title="Isles of Scilly">Isles of Scilly</a>, causing her to sink the next day.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent200669_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent200669-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Fauvette&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Fauvette (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Fauvette</i></a> – Launched 1912; hired February 1915 as a store carrier, and ABS from 19 March 1915. Sunk by a mine in <a href="/wiki/The_Downs_(ship_anchorage)" title="The Downs (ship anchorage)">the Downs</a> off the North Foreland (<span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Armed_boarding_steamer&params=51_27_N_01_29_E_type:event&title=Sinking+HMS+Fauvette"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°27′N</span> <span class="longitude">01°29′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.450°N 1.483°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.450; 1.483</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Sinking HMS Fauvette</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span>) on 9 March 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent2006104_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent2006104-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Fiona_(1905)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Fiona (1905) (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Fiona</i></a> – Wrecked 6 September 1917 on the Pentland Skerries</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Grangemouth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Grangemouth (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Grangemouth</i></a> – Launched 1898; ABS from 5 January 1915 to 1 April 1919</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Grive&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Grive (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Grive</i></a> – Launched 1905; hired as a store carrier 5 August 1914 and ABS from 14 February 1916. Torpedoed by <a href="/wiki/SM_UC-40" title="SM UC-40"><i>UC-40</i></a> on 8 December 1917 in the North Sea off Lerwick;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent2006105_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent2006105-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> foundered 24 December.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Hazel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Hazel (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Hazel</i></a> – Launched 1907; ABS from 14 November 1914 to 17 February 1919</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Heroic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Heroic (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Heroic</i></a> – Launched 1906; ABS from 18 November 1914 to 6 July 1920; troop transport July 1917 to January 1918.</li> <li>HMS <a href="/wiki/SS_King_Orry_(1913)" title="SS King Orry (1913)"><i>King Orry</i></a> – also served during World War II as an <a href="/wiki/Ocean_boarding_vessel" title="Ocean boarding vessel">ocean boarding vessel</a>; sunk during the <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation" title="Dunkirk evacuation">Dunkirk evacuation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGreenway2013101_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenway2013101-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Lama&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Lama (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Lama</i></a> – Launched 1905; ABS from 12 July 1915 to 17 January 1918</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Dresden_(1897)" class="mw-redirect" title="SS Dresden (1897)">HMS <i>Louvain</i></a> – sunk by torpedo by <a href="/wiki/SM_UC-22" title="SM UC-22">SM <i>UC-22</i></a> on 20 January 1918 while in the Kelos strait in the Aegean Sea; seven officers and 217 men killed; 17 survivors.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent2006111_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent2006111-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Lunka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Lunka (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Lunka</i></a> – Launched 1905; ABS from 20 July 1915 to 22 January 1919</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Partridge_(1914)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Partridge (1914) (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Partridge</i></a> – Launched 1906. ABS from 15 November 1914. Action with a U-boat on 15 March 1915. HMS <i>Partridge (II)</i> from 1916 to 12 July 1920.</li> <li>HMS <a href="/wiki/SS_Peel_Castle" title="SS Peel Castle"><i>Peel Castle</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Perth" title="HMS Perth">HMS <i>Perth</i></a> – on 1 October 1918 beat off two attacks by a U-boat in the Bay of Biscay</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Prince_Abbas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Prince Abbas (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Prince Abbas</i></a> – Launched 1892. ABS from 5 June 1915 to November 1916.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Richard_Welford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Richard Welford (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Richard Welford</i></a> – Launched 1908; ABS from 15 January 1915 to 26 February 1919</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Rowan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Rowan (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Rowan</i></a> – Launched 1909. ABS from 14 November 1914 to 7 July 1917 and again from 11 July 1918 to 15 June 1920.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Royal_Scot&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Royal Scot (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Royal Scot</i></a> – Launched 910. ABS from 28 October 1914 to 12 January 1919.</li> <li>HMS <a href="/wiki/SS_Sarnia_(1910)" title="SS Sarnia (1910)">SS <i>Sarnia</i> (1910)</a> – <a href="/wiki/SM_U-65_(Germany)" title="SM U-65 (Germany)">SM <i>U-65</i></a> sank her in the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a> off <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, Egypt, (<span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Armed_boarding_steamer&params=31_58_N_30_55_E_type:event&title=Sinking+HMS+Sarnia"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">31°58′N</span> <span class="longitude">30°55′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">31.967°N 30.917°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">31.967; 30.917</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Sinking HMS Sarnia</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span>), with the loss of 55 crew.<sup id="cite_ref-Sarnia_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sarnia-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent2006156_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent2006156-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Scotia_(shore_establishment)" title="HMS Scotia (shore establishment)">HMS <i>Scotia</i></a></li> <li>HMS <a href="/wiki/SS_Snaefell_(1910)" title="SS Snaefell (1910)"><i>Snaefell</i></a> – sunk by torpedo by <a href="/wiki/SM_UB-105" title="SM UB-105">SM <i>UB-105</i></a> on 5 June 1918 between Malta and Crete.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent2006138_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent2006138-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Stephen_Furness" title="HMS Stephen Furness">HMS <i>Stephen Furness</i></a> – sunk by torpedo on 13 December 1917 by <a href="/wiki/SM_UB-65" title="SM UB-65">SM <i>UB-65</i></a> off the Isle of Man, with the loss of 101 officers and men.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent2006225_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent2006225-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Suva" title="HMS Suva">HMS <i>Suva</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TSS_Hibernia_(1899)" title="TSS Hibernia (1899)">HMS <i>Tara</i></a> – sunk by torpedo <a href="/wiki/SM_U-35_(Germany)" title="SM U-35 (Germany)"><i>U-35</i></a> in <a href="/wiki/Sollum" class="mw-redirect" title="Sollum">Sollum</a> Bay on the Egyptian coast on 5 November 1915</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_The_Ramsey" title="SS The Ramsey">HMS <i>Ramsey</i></a> – sunk by <a href="/wiki/SMS_Meteor_(1903)" title="SMS Meteor (1903)">SMS <i>Meteor</i></a> in August 1915</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Tihonus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Tihonus (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Tihonus</i></a> (or <i>Thinonus</i>) – sunk in the North Sea 50 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nautical miles</a> (93 km) east of Aberdeen (<span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Armed_boarding_steamer&params=57_04_N_0_33_W_type:event&title=Sinking+HMS+Tihonus"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">57°04′N</span> <span class="longitude">0°33′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">57.067°N 0.550°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">57.067; -0.550</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Sinking HMS Tihonus</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span>) by <a href="/wiki/SM_UB-72" title="SM UB-72">SM <i>UB-72</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent200610_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent200610-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Vienna&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Vienna (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Vienna</i></a> – Launched 1894; Accommodation ship from 21 August 1914 to December, then <a href="/wiki/Q-ship" title="Q-ship">decoy ship</a> <i>Antwerp</i> from 1 January 1915 to 28 April 1915, and lastly ABS from 29 March 1915 to 25 August 1919.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Woodnut&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Woodnut (page does not exist)">HMS <i>Woodnut</i></a> – Launched 1906 as <i>Woodcock</i>; ABS from 15 November 1914 to 31 March 1920</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_York_(1915)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS York (1915) (page does not exist)">HMS <i>York</i></a> – Launched 1907; ABS 3 January 1915 to 4 April 1919.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armed_boarding_steamer&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Action_of_16_March_1917" title="Action of 16 March 1917">Action of 16 March 1917</a> SS <i>Dundee</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocean_boarding_vessel" title="Ocean boarding vessel">Ocean boarding vessel</a> British vessels of similar purpose in the Second World War</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hired_armed_vessels" title="Hired armed vessels">Hired armed vessels</a> British vessels that performed convoy escort duties, anti-privateer patrols and ran errands during the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> and earlier.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armed_merchantman" title="Armed merchantman">Armed merchantman</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armed_boarding_steamer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Friedman states that <i>Meteor</i> sank the armed boarding vessel <i>King Orry</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman2014402_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman2014402-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armed_boarding_steamer&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman201462-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman201462_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman201462_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman201462_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFriedman2014">Friedman 2014</a>, p. 62.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman2014402-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman2014402_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFriedman2014">Friedman 2014</a>, p. 402.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent2006148-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent2006148_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTennent2006">Tennent 2006</a>, p. 148.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent200669-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent200669_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTennent2006">Tennent 2006</a>, p. 69.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent2006104-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent2006104_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTennent2006">Tennent 2006</a>, p. 104.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent2006105-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent2006105_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTennent2006">Tennent 2006</a>, p. 105.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenway2013101-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGreenway2013101_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGreenway2013">Greenway 2013</a>, p. 101.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETennent2006111-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETennent2006111_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTennent2006">Tennent 2006</a>, p. 111.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sarnia-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Sarnia_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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