Flat-iron gunboats (more formally known as Rendel gunboats) were a number of classes of coastal gunboats generally characterised by small size, low freeboard...
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HMQS Gayundah (category Gayundah-class gunboats)
HMQS Gayundah was a flat-iron gunboat operated by the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and later the Royal Australian Navy (as HMAS Gayundah). She entered...
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HMCS (later HMAS) Protector was a large flat-iron gunboat commissioned and purchased by the South Australian government in 1884, for the purpose of defending...
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indigenous South African sheep breed HMSAS Afrikander, Navy, Gadfly-class flat-iron gunboat Some species of Gladiolus This disambiguation page lists articles...
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The Ant-class gunboat was a class of twenty-four Royal Navy flat-iron gunboats mounting a single 10-inch gun, built between 1870 and 1880. They carried...
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Chin-ou (金甌) and sometimes referred to as Jinou, was an ironclad flat-iron gunboat built for the Imperial Chinese Navy. She was completed in 1875 at...
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HMS Thunderer, renamed in 1869. HMS Comet (1870) was an Ant-class flat-iron gunboat launched in 1870 and sold for breaking in 1908. HMS Comet (1910) was...
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HMSAS Afrikander (category Ant-class gunboats of the South African Navy)
HMS Tickler was a Royal Navy Gadfly-class flat-iron gunboat launched in 1879. She was transferred to Simon's Town in South Africa in 1885 and converted...
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A clothes iron (also flatiron, smoothing iron, dry iron, steam iron or simply iron) is a small appliance that, when heated, is used to press clothes to...
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In the 1870s and 1880s, Britain took to building so-called "flat-iron" (or Rendel) gunboats for coastal defence. When there would be few opportunities...
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Excellent between 1859 and 1892. Tenders and depot ships: HMS Handy, a flat-iron gunboat, was HMS Excellent between 1891 and 1916. HMS Drudge was HMS Excellent...
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HMQS Paluma (category Gayundah-class gunboats)
HMQS Paluma was a flat-iron gunboat operated by the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and later the Royal Australian Navy (as HMAS Paluma). She entered...
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1860s to 1880s. They were also fitted to the Bouncer and Ant-class flat-iron gunboats. They were also used for fixed coastal defences around the United...
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1816 when the Navy sold her. HMS Tickler (1879) was a Gadfly-class flat-iron gunboat. HMS Tickler was a sloop purchased in Honduras for local use as a...
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The Ever class was a class of 14 flat-iron gunboats of the Royal Netherlands Navy. In the 1860s acquiring a fleet of armored ships had been the first priority...
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HMVS Albert (category Gunboats of the Victorian Naval Forces)
with the colony of Queensland. This class was built to a type B1 flat-iron gunboat design from builders Armstrong Mitchell and Co. List of Victorian...
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class of 16 flat-iron gunboats of the Royal Netherlands Navy. In the Age of Sail, and in general before the end of World War II, gunboats were slow, weakly...
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gunboat was a class of 12 Royal Navy Rendel (or "flat-iron") gunboats mounting three 6.3-inch guns, built between 1876 and 1877. Flat-iron gunboats were...
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targets. River gunboat is a type of gunboat for riverine use. Flat-iron gunboats were a number of classes of coastal gunboats generally characterized by small...
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HMVS Victoria (1884) (category Gunboats of the Victorian Naval Forces)
gunboat that served with the Victorian Naval Forces and Western Australia before being sold into private use. This class was built to a type D flat-iron...
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SMS Emden (category Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914))
Emden be repaired and refloated, but an inspection by the elderly flat-iron gunboat HMAS Protector concluded that wave damage to Emden made such an operation...
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HMS Trent (1877) (category Medina-class gunboats)
in 1923. The Medina class were a development of the Rendel (or "flat-iron") gunboat, a series of small vessels with low freeboards which mounted a small...
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The Italian Castore-class gunboats, Castore and Polluce, were a class of two Rendel gunboats, designed and built by Sir W G Armstrong Mitchell & Co.'s...
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George Wightwick Rendel (section Rendel gunboats)
by it. These were the Rendel gunboats (or "flat-iron gunboats" after their physical similarity to a contemporary flat iron) produced for the British Admiralty...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-395-98414-9. Retrieved 2013-12-26. "The Gunboat Philadelphia". National Museum of American History. 2012-03-15. Retrieved...
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The Vale class was a class of five Rendel (or "flat-iron") gunboats built for the Royal Norwegian Navy between 1874 and 1878. Small, nimble vessels, they...
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located at the Foochow Arsenal along with the corvette Yangwu and two flat-iron gunboats. From the middle of the month, the French Navy started sending ships...
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The Gor class was a class of two Rendel (or "flat-iron") gunboats built for the Royal Norwegian Navy between 1884 and 1887. Small, nimble vessels, they...
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Gor-class gunboat For Royal Norwegian Navy. 13 May United Kingdom Sir WG Armstrong Mitchell & Company Elswick Gayundah Flat-iron gunboat For Queensland...
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