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• The five revoked contracts all relate to replacement parts for an Israeli Navy gunboat known as the Saar 4.5 Class Corvette, according to a senior Israeli official. Britain Says Israel Misused U.K. Arms
• In June 2000, its rig was chased out of Guyana's waters by Suriname gunboats as it was about to embark on drilling a well in the most promising area. Stabroek News
• Handy, a trials gunboat built in 1883, is thought to be one of the last surviving genuine gunboats in British waters.
• On the 9th of June, the _Speedy_ and another little vessel had a nine hours 'fight, first with a Spanish zebec and three gunboats, and afterwards with a felucco and two more gunboats which came to their aid, which were only allowed to escape when the The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II
• It was shelled later in the war by the Federal gunboats and rendered untenantable. A soldier's recollections : leaves from the diary of a young Confederate : with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South,
• Yet one must not overestimate the political consequences; the gunboats were used to protect foreign nationals locally, and sometimes to exact reparation for injury done to them.
• Gone was the era of gunboat diplomacy, gone the treaty port concessions, gone the specially conceded naval bases, the military missions, the ill-disguised interference in Chinese affairs.
• The gunboat opened fire on the mainland.
• Designed as a heavy fighter the Unicorn gunboat has the offensive power to take out small capitol ships, providing it lasts that long though.
• A thick rainsquall came up, and rendered it impossible for the rear gunboats to know whither the Confederate flotilla had fled. Hero Tales from American History