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    The Fly-class river gunboats (or small China gunboats), collectively often referred to as the "Tigris gunboat flotilla", were a class of small well-armed...
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    The Insect-class gunboats (or large China gunboats) were a class of small but well-armed Royal Navy ships designed for use in shallow rivers or inshore...
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    The Albacore-class gunboat, also known as "Crimean gunboat", was a class of 98 gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1855 and 1856 for use in the 1853-1856...
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    A river gunboat is a type of gunboat adapted for river operations. River gunboats required shallow draft for river navigation. They would be armed with...
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  • 1866. HMS Firefly (1877), a British Forester-class gunboat. HMS Firefly (1915), a British Fly-class gunboat that the Ottomans captured but that the British...
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  • Type 81 Tribal class, Type 14 Blackwood class and the Type 12M Rothesay-class frigates. The company was also involved in the Leander class programme. During...
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    of gunboat and gunvessel classes of the Royal Navy. For gun-brigs see List of gun-brigs of the Royal Navy. Diana (1823) Mohawk (1843) Bann class (1855)...
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    HMS Tarantula (category Insect-class gunboats)
    the Second Battle of Kut. Suleiman Pak was originally the British Fly-class gunboat HMS Firefly, which the Ottomans had captured in December 1915 after...
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  • feet in replying. In January 1917 Mulock was given command of the Fly-class river gunboat HMS Sawfly, serving on the Tigris River in Mesopotamia. During...
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  • 6 later that year. She was sold in 1920. HMS Gadfly (1915) was a Fly-class gunboat launched in 1915 and transferred to the War Department in 1923. This...
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    rams D-class destroyers Daring-class destroyers Devastation-class ironclads Dryad-class torpedo gunboats E and F-class destroyers Fly-class gunboats G and...
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  • of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Blackfly: HM Gunboat Blackfly, a Fly-class gunboat built in 1916. She sank after colliding with a bridge in...
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    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...
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  • shipwrecks: 26 May 1923 Ship State Description HM Gunboat Blackfly  Royal Navy The Fly-class gunboat collided with a pontoon bridge over the Tigris at...
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  • named Bremse after the horse-fly (German: Bremse): SMS Bremse (1884), an armoured gunboat SMS Bremse (1916), a Brummer-class cruiser German training ship Bremse...
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  • construction; sunk by a naval mine in March 1916 HMS Mayfly (1915), a Fly-class river gunboat constructed in sections at Yarrow in 1915; lent to the War Department...
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  • (disambiguation) HMS Medina, a list of Royal Navy ships Medina-class gunboat, a class of Royal Navy gunboats built between 1876 and 1877 List of ships named Medina...
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    gunboat) 1862 — Sacramento - (steam sloop) 1863 — Nipsic - (steam gunboat) 1863 — Shawmut - (steam gunboat) 1863 — Agamenticus - (Miantonomoh-class monitor)...
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  • in 1903. HMS Fly (1856) was a wooden Albacore-class screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1862. HMS Fly (1867) was a Beacon-class gunvessel launched...
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  • List of shipwrecks: 14 June 1924 Ship State Description HMS Firefly  Royal Navy The Fly-class gunboat was sunk in the Euphrates by insurgents....
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    Mayfly (redirect from May-Fly)
    named HMS Mayfly: a torpedo boat launched in January 1907, and a Fly-class river gunboat constructed in sections at Yarrow in 1915. The Seddon Mayfly, which...
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  • named Brummer after the blow-fly: SMS Brummer (1884): an armoured gunboat SMS Brummer (1915): a 4,400-ton Brummer-class mine-laying cruiser German training...
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    USS Cairo (category Gunboats of the United States Navy)
    the lead ship of the City-class casemate ironclads built at the beginning of the American Civil War to serve as river gunboats. Cairo is named for Cairo...
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    HMS Leander (F109) (category Leander-class frigates)
    Navy vessels, she was confronted by Icelandic gunboats. In January 1976, she rammed the Icelandic gunboat Þór (Thor), causing some damage to both ships...
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    SMS Nautilus (1871) (category Albatross-class gunboats)
    SMS Nautilus was the second and final member of the Albatross class of steam gunboats built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the 1870s...
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  • a wood screw Philomel-class gunvessel launched in 1860 and broken up in 1868. HMS Sparrow (1889) was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1889. She was...
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    Antasena-class combat boat is a combat boat built by North Sea Boats and designed by LOMOcean Marine for the Indonesian armed forces. The manufacturer...
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    150 sailors and marines were landed from the Pearl-class protected cruiser Philomel and the gunboat Thrush, which were anchored in the harbour. The naval...
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    HMS Jupiter (F60) (category Leander-class frigates)
    Icelandic gunboat Ægir. Jupiter then visited Africa on her way to the Far East and Pacific, and carried out a variety of duties, including performing fly-the-flag...
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    The I-400-class submarine (伊四百型潜水艦, I-yon-hyaku-gata sensuikan) Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) submarines were the largest submarines of World War II, with...
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