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Gunboat. A Bramble -class gunboat, built for the Royal Navy in 1886. A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
1× Bofors 40 mm gun. Provision for mines. The Osprey 55-class gunboat is a Danish -designed class of naval ship currently in service in the Hellenic Navy and Royal Moroccan Navy. Two ships were ordered by Greece in March 1988 and built by Hellenic Shipyards. The first one was laid down on 8 May 1989 and launched on 19 December 1989.
The HSY-55-class gunboat is a class of naval vessel designed by the Hellenic Navy and built by Hellenic Shipyards (HSY). This class of ship uses the modular concept so that weapons and sensors can be changed as required. These vessels are similar in appearance to Osprey 55-class gunboat. The first pair was ordered on 20 February 1990, but ...
USS Galatea (1863) USS Gamage (1864) USS Gazelle (1863) SMS Geier. USS Gem of the Sea. USS Gemsbok (1861) USS General Bragg. USS General Burnside. USS General Grant.
Cicala: built by Barclay Curle, sunk by Japanese bombs on 21 December 1941. Cockchafer: built by Barclay Curle, sold for scrap in 1949, the last surviving member of the class. Cricket: built by Barclay Curle, heavily damaged by bombs on 29 June 1941; used as target by Royal Navy and sunk off Cyprus 1944.
The Beacon-class gunvessels were a class of composite gunboats built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. They were the first warships of the Royal Navy expressly designed to use the engines of an older class of ships with a different hull shape. [1] They were generally deployed overseas to the China, East Indies, West Africa, Pacific, North ...
USS Essex was a 1000-ton ironclad river gunboat of the United States Army and later United States Navy during the American Civil War. It was named by her captain, William Porter, for his father's old sailing frigate, the USS Essex. This Essex was originally constructed in 1856 at New Albany, Indiana as a steam-powered ferry named New Era.
Steam gun boats (SGBs) were small Royal Navy vessels built from 1940 to 1942 for Coastal Forces during World War II. The class consisted of nine steam-powered torpedo boats. They were developed in parallel with the 35-metre long Fairmile D motor torpedo boats ("dog boats"), specifically due to the need to hunt down German E-boats at a time of ...