Brueys had augmented the fort with his bomb vessels and gunboats, which were anchored among the rocks to the west of the island in a position to give support to the head of the French line.

During a prolonged skirmish between the troops of these opposing forces, Sun and his wife Soong Ching-ling narrowly evaded heavy machine gun fire and were rescued by gunboats under Chiang's direction.

Beatty then took command of Fateh between October 1897 and August 1898 when the gunboats were frequently in action advancing along the Nile ahead of the army.

This battle marked the effective end of resistance to the expeditionary force, but the gunboats were called into service to transport troops to Fashoda, south along the White Nile, where a small force of French troops had made a difficult land crossing and staked a claim to the area.

Among the 41 vessel fleet were 2 frigates, 22 missile attack craft ( including 10 advanced Osa II missile boats ), 2 submarine chasers, 4 mine warfare vessels, 8 gunboats, 6 patrol craft, 4 missile corvettes ( on order ), 3 landing craft ( on order ), 1 torpedo recovery vessel and, as part of its coastal defence system, Sepal shore-to-sea missiles with a range of 300 kilometers

After the bombardment, certain British gunboats attempted to slip past the fort and effect a landing in a cove to the west of it, but they were turned away by fire from nearby Fort Covington, the city's last line of defense.

Torpedoes were also used to equip gunboats of around 1, 000 tons, these becoming torpedo gunboats.

In mid-1880s there were developed torpedo gunboats, like the Spanish Destructor, but they were considered too slow to catch torpedo boats because of the popular belief that the speeds attained by torpedo boats in trial conditions equated to speeds obtainable in service.

The very first important order came from the Kaiserliche Marine when several gunboats were built.

A very first important warship-order came from the Kaiserliche Marine, between 1875 and 1884 altogether 29 gunboats were built.

A flotilla of eighteen Confederate gunboats and packet ships were relocated to the Tombigbee River at Demopolis around this same time.

KOMID representatives were also involved in a North Korean deal to mass produce Kornet anti-tank guided missiles for Syria and KOMID has also been responsible for the sale of equipment, including missile technologies, gunboats, and multiple rocket artilleries, worth a total of over $ 100 million, to Africa, South America and the Middle East.

After the U. S. Army invaded McIntosh County and destroyed Darien, gunboats were used to blockade the ports.

The Union sent gunboats to the town and warned that if shots were fired, the U. S. Navy would strike the area for six miles to the south and nine miles to the north and destroy every building on every plantation.

The gunboats were returned safely upriver to Grand Ecore in Natchitoches Parish.

After one day and one night's fighting, four gunboats were lost and two others severely damaged.

The ships were designed as combined cargo, passenger and gunboats for the Peruvian Navy.

Part of the French losses were caused by the gunboats which lay close inshore and cannonaded the left flank of the French columns, and by a heavy naval gun which was placed in battery near the position of March 28.

Besides the Brooklyn, also built at the Westervelt shipyard were the gunboats, and the revenue cutter, all of which performed efficient blockading services during the war.

The British had gained naval superiority on Lake Champlain on 1 June 1813, when two American sloops pursued British gunboats into the Richelieu River, and were forced to surrender when the wind dropped and they were trapped by British artillery on the banks of the river.

Their crews, and those of several gunboats, were temporarily reinforced by seamen drafted from ships of war lying at Quebec under Commander Thomas Everard who, being senior to Pring, took temporary command.

They operated some gunboats in support of navy operations.

A fleet including HMS Eclipse, Esk, Fawn, Himalaya, Miranda, Orpheus, Wasp, gunboats ; Koheroa, Paparata, Rangiriri and various support vessels ; Kate, Light of the Age, Prince Albert, Reliance, Sandfly, Sir Harry Smith, Spitfire, Star of India, Stuart, Wakool and Tarawera supported the war effort either on the Waikato River, landing troops and supplies at Miranda in the Firth Of Thames, or bringing troops and a regular stream of supplies from Australia.

* Harbour security boat ( PBI )-4 newly built 80 ton class harbour security / patrol boats, and more are planned in order to take over the port security / patrol duties currently performed by the obsolete Shantou, Beihai, Huangpu, and Yulin classes gunboats, which are increasingly being converted to inshore surveying boats and range support boats.

The Army also got some dubious support from the gunboats under Commander Stephen C. Rowan, who shelled the Rebel positions although they were hidden by intervening forests.

Two days later, President Lincoln, still acting as Commander-in-Chief, directed Flag Officer Goldsborough: " If you have tolerable confidence that you can successfully contend with the Merrimac and the North used the ships ' former name without the help of the Galena and two accompanying gunboats, send the Galena and two gunboats up the James River at once to support General McClellan.

Also during the night two gunboats and a steamer arrived with additional troops to support McNeil ’ s forces.

Fire support from two of his gunboats, Tyler and Lexington, helped save Union troops from disaster in the Battle of Shiloh, bringing high praise from General Ulysses S. Grant.

Ansari launched a battalion sized attack on the EPR HQ at Halishahar ( a strongly fortified area ), supported by another battalion and 2 tanks, with PNS Babur and Jahangir and 2 gunboats, plus a mortar battery lending fire support.

Marchand rebuilt the fort, but the expected support from other French columns and from Abyssinia did not arrive and on September 11, a flotilla of British gunboats, led by Sir Herbert Kitchener, commander of the Anglo-Egyptian army that had just defeated the forces of the Mahdi at the Battle of Omdurman, reached Fashoda.

The artillery was ordered to fire first on the British gunboats, and then shift fire to support the Ottoman reserves.

The First Brigade of river gunboats from the Amur Flotilla, having swept shipping channels, entered the estuary of the river Sungari to support the troops as they landed with artillery fire.

Under Lincoln's leadership, the Union set up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control of communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

This called for eight armoured frigates, six armoured corvettes, twenty light corvettes, seven monitors, two floating batteries, six avisos, eighteen gunboats and twenty-eight torpedo boats, at an estimated cost of 220 million Gold Marks.

French gunboats appeared at Bangkok, and demanded the cession of Lao territories east of the Mekong River.

Arnold first decided to attempt grounding the slower gunboats at Split Rock, short of Crown Point.

The supply fleet met Clinch at the Negro Fort, and its two gunboats took positions across the river from the fort.

Second, gunboats, such as those that the Americans deployed at the Battle of Lake Borgne often had one large 18 -, 24 -, or 32-pounder gun forward on a pivot, and two smaller carronades aft.

By sea, Hastings ' steam-powered warship, the Karteria, launched a daring night-raid ( 29 / 30 September ) at Itea on the northern shore of the Gulf, sinking 9 Ottoman gunboats.

On March 11, Brigadier General Ambrose Burnside's command embarked from Roanoke Island to rendezvous with Union gunboats at Hatteras Inlet for an expedition against New Bern.

Fort Branch, located upriver at Hamilton, successfully blocked the Union gunboats and troops sailing upstream from Plymouth at the river bend called Rainbow Branch in an attempt to push upriver to Weldon.

Lieutenant Thomas Macdonough, commanding the American naval forces on the Lake, established a secure base at Otter Creek ( Vermont ), and constructed several gunboats.

Although the British sloops and gunboats under Commander Pring were already on the Lake and at anchor near Chazy, and had set up a battery on Isle La Motte, Vermont, it took two days to tow the frigate Confiance up the Sorel River from Ile aux Noix, against both wind and current.

Half the British gunboats were also hotly engaged at this end of the line.

He duly notified the foreign consuls, the governor-general of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the commanders of several neutral warships moored at the Pagoda Anchorage ( the British gunboats Vigilant, Champion and Sapphire and the American corvette Enterprise ).

The Japanese had intended on swinging the flying division around the right flank of the Chinese line in an encirclement but the timely arrival of the gunboats Kuang Ping and Pingyuan along with the two ' alphabetical ' gunboats and torpedo boats Fu Lung ( built at Schichau ) and the Choi Ti, a Yarrow built vessel diverted this maneuver.

Major General James Wilkinson's division of 8, 000 would concentrate at Sackett's Harbor on Lake Ontario, and proceed down the Saint Lawrence River in gunboats, batteaux and other small craft.

On the river, Mulcaster's gunboats began shooting at the American boats clustered around Cook's Point, while a Mohawk fired a shot at an American party scouting near their encampment, who replied with a volley.