Meanings of small gunboat in English

Fair weather and only one little brush with a small gunboat.

There was also a craft fixed up to look like a small gunboat.

The first one was a small gunboat, the "Staunch," built for the Admiralty.

The surrender included a small gunboat and about 200 seamen, together with five merchant ships in the harbor.

Looking back, the lads saw two destroyers racing in the wake of the submarine, preceded by a small gunboat.

She shut her eyes to concentrate on the radio, and the next thing she heard was the crew on the small gunboat.

Navies had small gunboats before torpedoes were used.

The Arkansas, with two small gunboats, had left Vicksburg on the 3d to co-operate with the movement.

Ukraine has said Russia captured the two small gunboats and one tugboat illegally and accused Moscow of military aggression.

Later, in 1868, he designed for Spain and superintended the construction of thirty small gunboats for use in Cuban waters.

One of our small gunboats had gone up the Calabar river, and while there the surgeon died of coast fever.

In readiness for any potential war with the U.S. Navy and regional allies, Iran's navy and Revolutionary Guard have poured resources into small gunboats.

My ship- asmallgunboat-wasbeing fitted out at that port, and my wife seemed delighted that she would see me pretty frequently before I sailed.