During this service he took command of a squadron of gunboats and attacked a Danish brig and cutter off Nyborg.
In April 1919, he was posted back to Murmansk, where he took command of the gunboat HMS Cricket.
On 11 July 1797 Daoíz was placed in charge of a gunboat in the Defence of Cadiz, commanded by Admiral Jose de Mazarredo y Salazar, against the British blockading squadron.
No problem for a fellow with the wiles of a fairy and the survival skills of a gunboat quartermaster.
After graduating from Yale University in 1966, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in the Vietnam War as an officer of a gunboat in the Mekong delta.
Although Curtis was personally opposed to British possession of Gibraltar, he took command of a marine unit during the siege, and in the attack by Spanish gunboats and floating batteries in September 1782, Curtis took his men into the harbour in small boats to engage the enemy.
At the outbreak of the Austro-Prussian War, in the summer of 1866, Werner was given command of a small squadron in the North Sea consisting of the ironclad warship and a flotilla of small steam gunboats.
"As far as the war plan goes, this is perfect," said Chris, a lieutenant junior grade who commands a gunboat.
A well funded campaign challenged his war hero status as a US navy lieutenant commanding a gunboat, known as a Swift Boat, in the Mekong Delta where he won several medals.
But when the Civil War broke out, experienced naval officers were at a premium, and Preble answered his nation's call to duty, accepting command of the steam-gunboat Katahdin.
