A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military...
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Gunboat diplomacy is the pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of naval power, implying or constituting a direct threat...
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Edward "Gunboat" Smith (February 17, 1887 – August 6, 1974) was an Irish American boxer, film actor and later a boxing referee. During his career, Smith...
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The Gunboat War (Danish: Kanonbådskrigen, Norwegian: Kanonbåtkrigen, Swedish: Kanonbåtskriget; 1807–1814) was a naval conflict between Denmark–Norway...
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The Type 062 gunboat is a class of gunboat of the People's Liberation Army Navy first developed and constructed in the 1950s. This unsophisticated class...
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The HSY-55-class gunboat is a class of naval vessel designed by the Hellenic Navy and built by Hellenic Shipyards (HSY). This class of ship uses the modular...
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List of ships of the People's Liberation Army Navy (section Missile boats, submarine chasers and gunboats)
medium, destroyers, frigates, corvettes, missile boats, submarine chasers, gunboats, mine countermeasures vessels, replenishment oilers and the various auxiliaries...
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The Osprey HSY-56A-class gunboat (also known as Machitis-class gunboat) is a class of naval vessel currently in service in the Hellenic Navy. These ships...
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A river gunboat is a type of gunboat adapted for river operations. River gunboats required shallow draft for river navigation. They would be armed with...
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The Acero class is a class of patrol gunboats based on the Shaldag V that are in service with the Philippine Navy. In 2019, the Philippine Navy raised...
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II-class gunboat Shanghai I (Type 062)-class gunboat – 150+ active and at least 100 in reserve Huludao (Type 206)-class gunboat – 8+ Shantou-class gunboat –...
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In late 19th-century naval terminology, torpedo gunboats were a form of gunboat armed with torpedoes and designed for hunting and destroying smaller torpedo...
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Mississippi River Squadron (redirect from Western Gunboat Flotilla)
it was commanded by naval officers, and was then known as the Western Gunboat Flotilla and sometimes as the Mississippi Flotilla. It received its final...
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Hämeenmaa (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈhæmeːmˌmɑː]) was a gunboat that served in the Finnish Navy during World War II. She was built in 1917. As the ship...
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City-class ironclad (redirect from City class ironclad gunboat)
The Pook Turtles, or City-class gunboats to use their semi-official name, were war vessels intended for service on the Mississippi River during the American...
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The Asheville-class gunboats were a class of small warships built for the United States Navy in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The class is named...
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The PGM-39-class gunboats, designated Patrol Gunboat, Motor by the United States Navy were a class of fifty nine gunboats constructed in various shipyards...
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CSS Florida (blockade runner) (redirect from CSS Florida (gunboat))
was built at Greenpoint, New York in 1859. Considered for service as a gunboat three times during the American Civil War, the vessel was captured by the...
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The Turunmaa-class fast gunboats (Finnish: Turunmaa-luokan tykkivene) was a type of vessel, previously operated by the Finnish Navy in the anti-submarine...
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The Osprey 55-class gunboat is a Danish-designed class of naval ship currently in service in the Hellenic Navy and Royal Moroccan Navy. Two ships were...
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Destroyer (section Torpedo gunboat)
and destroying torpedo boats was the torpedo gunboat. Essentially very small cruisers, torpedo gunboats were equipped with torpedo tubes and an adequate...
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Yangtze Patrol (redirect from Yangtze River gunboat)
nations, including the United States, operated merchant ships and navy gunboats on the waterways of China. During the 1860s and 1870s, American merchant...
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Japanese gunboat Fushimi may refer to: Japanese gunboat Fushimi (1906), an Imperial Japanese Navy gunboat launched in 1906 and stricken in 1935 Japanese...
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SMS Panther (redirect from Panther (gunboat))
SMS Panther was one of six Iltis-class gunboats of the Kaiserliche Marine that, like its sister ships, served in Germany's overseas colonies. The ship...
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Chinese ironclad Pingyuan (redirect from Chinese gunboat Pingyuan)
cruiser built by the Mawei Navy Yard, modelled on the French Acheron-class gunboat. Pingyuan was firstly named Longwei (Chinese: 龍威; pinyin: Lóngwēi), and...
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words: TT is Tuần Tra (Patrol), 400 is over 400 tons, TP is Tàu Pháo (gunboat). The ships were constructed under the purview of Colonel Nguyen Van Cuong...
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Missile boat (redirect from Sa'ar gunboat)
List of missile boat classes Fast attack craft Motor torpedo boat Motor gunboat Ballistic missile submarine (sometimes called a "missile boat") Pike, John...
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Uusimaa was a gunboat that served in the Finnish Navy during World War II. She was built in 1917. As the ship had changed hands many times during the...
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The Gunboat Sheds (Kanonbådsskurene) is a row of 32 black-painted wooden sheds located on the east coast of Frederiksholm, part of Holmen, in Copenhagen...
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The Bramble-class gunboat was a class of four gunboats mounting six 4-inch guns, built for the Royal Navy in 1886. In 1887 the first three were reclassified...
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