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...

intercepting and boarding foreign vessels. Armed boarding steamer – British vessels of similar purpose in First World War Hired armed vessels – British...

An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact. In the days of sail, piracy...

created their own type of warship specifically designed for boarding. Several armed boarding steamers were converted from merchant ships and fought in engagements...

(Kite balloon ship) Heroic (Armed Boarding Steamer) Manica (Kite balloon ship) Triad (Yacht) Barryfield (paddle steamer converted to landing...

Ab class, a New Zealand steam locomotive Armed boarding steamer, used by the UK during World War I for boarding enemy vessels AB, a US Navy hull classification...

Action of 16 March 1917 was a naval engagement in which the British armed boarding steamer SS Dundee and HMS Achilles, a Warrior-class armoured cruiser, fought...

SS Italia (1904), an ocean liner converted by the French Navy to an armed boarding steamer and sunk in 1917 MS Italia (1948), a passenger liner launched in...

and 1905. War-game studies begun in July 1903 "showed that a battleship armed with twelve 11-or-12-inch (279 or 305 mm) guns hexagonally arranged would...

these carriers generally carry the largest, heaviest, and most heavily armed aircraft, although smaller CATOBAR carriers may have other limitations (weight...