Flat-iron gunboats (more formally known as Rendel gunboats) were a number of classes of coastal gunboats generally characterised by small size, low freeboard...

Publishers Flat Iron, a First Nations lacrosse player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics for Canada Flat-iron gunboat, a 19th-century iron gunboat typified...

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...

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...

indigenous South African sheep breed HMSAS Afrikander, Navy, Gadfly-class flat-iron gunboat Some species of Gladiolus This disambiguation page lists articles...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-395-98414-9. Retrieved 2013-12-26. "The Gunboat Philadelphia". National Museum of American History. 2012-03-15. Retrieved...

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...

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...

Gor-class gunboat For Royal Norwegian Navy. 13 May  United Kingdom Sir WG Armstrong Mitchell & Company Elswick Gayundah Flat-iron gunboat For Queensland...

Stanley Island. HMQS Gayunda  Royal Australian Navy 2 June 1958 A flat-iron gunboat that was beached as a breakwater off Woody Point. 27°15′43″S 153°06′26″E...