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Victory ships carried a 3-inch gun on the bow, 20 mm machine gun tubs port and starboard between the first and second holds; a second pair of 20 mm guns on the bridge wings, a third pair on the after edge of the superstructure, and a fourth pair between the after (Number 5) hatch and the 5"/38 calibre gun on the stern.
The gun that such boats carried could be quite heavy; a 32-pounder for instance. As such boats were cheap and quick to build, naval forces favoured swarm tactics: while a single hit from a frigate's broadside would destroy a gunboat, a frigate facing a large squadron of gunboats could suffer serious damage before it could manage to sink them all.
The primary armament consisted of two 120-millimeter Armstrong cannons, one forward and one aft, while the secondary armament included four 37-millimeter Armstrong cannons; two 25-millimeter Nordenfelt machine guns, and four other machine guns of unspecified caliber; the hull made of cast iron Ipanema structure and German steel plating and ...
The flat-iron gunboat HMS Mastiff (right, painted white). Flat-iron gunboats (more formally known as Rendel gunboats) were a number of classes of coastal gunboats generally characterised by small size, low freeboard, the absence of masts, [Note 1] and the mounting of a single non-traversing large gun, aimed by pointing the vessel.
HMS Prince Albert, a pioneering turret ship, built by naval engineer Cowper Phipps Coles.. Before the development of large-calibre, long-range guns in the mid-19th century, the classic ship of the line design used rows of port-mounted guns on each side of the ship, often mounted in casemates.
The boat had a displacement of 55 long tons (56 t) (fully loaded) and was 80 ft (24 m) in length, with a beam of 20 ft (6.1 m), and a draft of 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m). Her three liquid-cooled, supercharged, 12-cylinder 1,350 shp (1,007 kW) Packard 4M-2500 engines each drove a single shaft, giving the boat a top speed of 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph).
At least two personnel on the Philippine vessel near the Second Thomas Shoal were carrying guns on deck, pointing them in the direction of China's Coast Guard, CCTV said in a social media post.
The gun was supplied with a total of thirty-eight shells. It had a range of elevation form -5 degrees to 20 degrees, and a maximum range of 10,000 m (11,000 yd). [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The gun had a limited arc of train, and aiming was primarily accomplished by turning the ship in the direction of the enemy.