Sentence examples for river gunboat from inspiring English sources

While he was still a passed midshipman he was put in command of the U. S. S. Panay, a forefunner of the river gunboat sunk by the Japs in 1937.

In the early 1940s he served on a river gunboat in China, and later in World War II as a line officer, dividing his time between commands in Asia and the Atlantic fleet; he was a ship's navigator in the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.

In November 1937, the Gnat met with the American river gunboat USS Panay.

The Russian and Romanian navies used small, shallow-draft monitors as river gunboats.

There were also two river gunboats Ladybird and Aphis, and three seaplane bombers.

That year, she was sent to China, where she joined the armored cruisers and and the river gunboats and.

The ship was ordered on 9 August 1937 as one of the intended replacements for the existing river gunboats stationed on the Chinese rivers.

Following the British declaration of war on Germany in September that year, several of the river gunboats, Grasshopper included, were redeployed to the British base at Singapore.

The Navy had a presence in the Far East with a naval base in the US-owned Philippines and river gunboats in China on the Yangtze River.

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.

A number of the garrison, including General Clinton, escaped by scrambling down the embankment to the river, where gunboats took them to safety across the river.