Sentence examples for the gunboat from inspiring English sources

It is like the gunboat diplomacy colonial powers used.

The gunboat was sunk and the destroyer was torpedoed, but was only slightly damaged.

On Christmas Eve, Davis signed the bill putting Maury in charge of building the gunboat fleet.

It's a scene that could belong to any century, were it not for the gunboat that guards the harbour.

And we saw it last week in images of the gunboat that we have hastily dispatched to defend the Falklands.

The gunboat leaves and Pax Britannica is restored.In the miserable 20th century, most wars are declared "legally".

Germany sent the gunboat Panther to the Moroccan port of Agadir in defense of "German interests" there.

It neatly combined the city-building tranquillity of The Settlers with the gunboat diplomacy of Age of Empires to make a deep and absorbing game.

Correction: May 31 , 2002 Friday An article in Science Times on Tuesday about a shipwreck found in the Gulf of Mexico referred incorrectly to the gunboat Hatteras.

Remarkably, the gunboat, the Bodrog, from which the first shots were were fired still survives today, largely forgotten, moored at the side of the river Danube in Belgrade.

June 20: "The gunboat at Laird's is being fitted out as a privateer and is to be commanded by Captain Bullock.