Sentence examples for gunboat for from inspiring English sources

He was subsequently assigned to the gunboat for an expedition to China.

In 1882, Zieten joined a cruising squadron that consisted of the corvettes and, the steamer, and a gunboat, for operations in the Mediterranean Sea.

He remained in China serving on a Yangtze gunboat for several years before returning to England and becoming a torpedo specialist at HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, in 1907.

Kinkaid was ordered to report to the gunboat for duty in the Caribbean, during which the ship participated in the 1916 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.

The altered version described the agreed price for the Zambezi Limpopo mining monopoly as "the valuable consideration of a large monthly payment in cash, a gunboat for defensive purposes on the Zambesi, and other services".

Meanwhile, at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Captain James Buchanan Eads of St . Louis Mo., constructed shallow-draft armoured gunboats for use on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

Related: The US Navy Is Developing 'Drone Gunboats' for Naval Warfare.

During the filming of this documentary the crew were pursued by gunboats for exposing their connection to the Costa Rican government.

(Britain has already blocked the sale of spare parts to Israeli gunboats for their use in attacking civilians in Gaza and most countries that sell weapons to Israel prohibit their use in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights).

In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 71, the Imperial German Navy decided that it needed to build river gunboats for service on the Rhine and Moselle to defend the German border.

Many families receive the bolsa familia, a benefit paid on the condition that their children get vaccinated and sent to school.As well as providing food, communication and the occasional excitement when a Colombian gunboat looking for drug smugglers sails by, the river affords the best way to cool off in the heat so long as thoughts of little organisms that swim up the urethra can be set aside.