gunboat in English

noun
1
a small, fast ship mounting guns, for use in shallow coastal waters and rivers.
These colonial naval forces consisted in the main of torpedo boats, gunboats and other small craft.

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1. Oppenheimer rejected the idea of nuclear gunboat diplomacy.

2. Gunboat diplomacy was typically conducted by cruisers or smaller warships.

3. What they could not take by political intrigue they took by 'gunboat diplomacy' .

4. Eventually Bismarck yielded to the Woermann position and instructed the admiralty to dispatch a gunboat.

5. 30 Lieutenant Campbell ordered the man at the wheel to steer for the gunboat.

6. As soon as Meteor had passed the border line, Bouvet opened fire on the German gunboat.

7. William B. Preston and her charges joined British gunboat Cricket and SS Wen-chow 52 miles below Chinkiang.

8. In December 1938 the river gunboat arrived at Shanghai to relieve Augusta (CA-31) as station ship.

9. Venezuela's suspension of debt payments in 1901 led to gunboat diplomacy of the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903.

10. The Second Moroccan Crisis (1911) was precipitated when the German gunboat Panther was sent to Agadir on July 1, 1911, ostensibly

11. With the aid of sister destroyers, she sank a number of barges, two submarine chasers, an armed boat, and a gunboat on various patrols.

12. Agadir Incident, event involving a German attempt to challenge French rights in Morocco by sending the gunboat Panther to Agadir in July 1911

13. Initially she was to be named Sentinel, but this was changed following the loss of the Dragonfly-class river gunboat Scorpion in the Bangka Strait in February 1942.

14. The road on the escarpment near Sollum was bombarded by a navy gunboat and targets near Sidi Barrani by two destroyers, from which fires and explosions were seen.

15. He then served in the Middle East and the Far East for ten years, commanding the hydrographic vessel Alidade, then the gunboat Doudart de Lagrée on the Yangtze.

16. Various interventions in the Korean Peninsula continued in 1875–1876, starting with the Ganghwa Island incident provoked by the Japanese gunboat Un'yō, leading to the dispatch of a large force of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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