gunboats in English
These colonial naval forces consisted in the main of torpedo boats, gunboats and other small craft.
Use "gunboats" in a sentence
1. Our gunboats are ploughing the waves.
2. Two Iranian oil platforms were damaged, and five Iranian warships and gunboats were sunk.
3. Our stragglers, their courage revived by sight of the gunboats, came up the hill, seeking their regiments.
4. Thirty Bolshevik gunboats, mines, and armed motor launches took their toll on the allied forces.
5. Shells from our gunboats on the James came hoarsely spluttering over the heads of our troops.
6. Over the next few days, Seafires destroyed two North Korean gunboats, attacked railway tracks, small coaster vessels and oil tanks.
7. He appointed chef de bataillon Badens commandant supérieur of Nam Định, giving him a garrison of 440 men and two gunboats.
8. The gunboats now came up like a flock of hawks, and soon the Moors were Clambering over the rails
9. Business people no longer believed that gunboats and garrisons were vital for the protection and promotion of their activities.
10. Jeaptiste Chaigneau, in Quy Nhơn, states in a letter, that the Tây Sơn navy had 54 battleships, 93 battleboats, 300 gunboats, and 100 saillng boats.
11. Grant's plan was to advance upon the fort on February 6 while it was being simultaneously attacked by Union gunboats commanded by Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote.
12. Ben was among 25 former militant leaders that surrendered more than 500 weapons , dozens of rocket launchers and mortar bombs and 14 gunboats , which were on display at the ceremony .