Gunboats in a sentence

Limited usage of ship numbers goes back even earlier, most notably to the "Jeffersonian Gunboats" of the early 1800s and the "Tinclad" river gunboats of the Civil War Mississippi Squadron.

On a stretch of the Rio Grande where I went bird-watching, congressional delegations in gunboats, wearing flak jackets.

The Houthis, however, are now sitting on a massive stockpile of drones, missiles, helicopters, gunboats, etcetera—all provided by Iran over the past decade.

The REC noted that boats, with the support of Navy gunboats for security, will be used to transport election materials and personnel.

By the early 1900s, Standard Oil’s activity and use of tankers in the region had also picked up, and by 1914 the United States Navy had introduced specially built, shallow-draft gunboats to the river.

During his first term, he supported the security agencies with over 300 operational vehicles, armoured personnel Carriers and gunboats.

Pictured: The Stena Impero and one of the Iranian gunboats that seized it.

They will be escorted by five Navy vessels and 18 gunboats as they make the poignant journey to Caen.

It’s a stark contrast to the Sarstoon where any Belizean movement is normally targeted by aggressive Guatemalan Armed Forces and gunboats accompanied by yelling of ‘respeten el protocolo’.

New U.S. and European sanctions had been imposed even before the two Ukrainian gunboats and tugboat were seized near the Kerch Strait on Nov. 25, and Shevchenko hopes the incident and elections would prompt Canada to take follow suit.

Poroshenko also ordered the navy to rapidly build a new fleet of shallow water gunboats—known colloquially in military circles as a “mosquito fleet”—armed with advanced anti-ship weapons.

Recently, the NHQ gave us 14 gunboats in addition to what we received previously.

After the bombardment, certain British gunboats attempted to slip past the fort and effect a landing in a cove to the west of it, but they were turned away by fire from nearby Fort Covington, the city's last line of defense.

A massive new fleet of more than 350 gunboats and mortar vessels was prepared, but before the attack was launched, the war ended.

As gunboats they could be effective against enemy small craft, especially armored barges used by the Japanese for inter-island transport.

Chernow, 2004, p. 671 Instead he incorporated a fleet of inexpensive gunboats used only for defense with the idea that they would not provoke foreign hostilities.

He also made major decisions on Union war strategy, including a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, moves to take control of Kentucky and Tennessee, and using gunboats to gain control of the southern river system.

He then was placed in charge of construction of gunboats in Newport and Westerly, Rhode Island.

In response, the British and French sent gunboats under the command of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour to capture the Taku forts near Tianjin in May 1858.

Lee was said to have failed to get effective support in the Savannah River from the three sidewheeler gunboats of the Georgia Navy.