The officers of the gunboat were not present, having occupied themselves, no doubt, in banking up their fires.
But, as was said, the captain of the gunboat would never dare to touch the wire that should commit so wide a destruction.
He was dressed in simple black, and was clearly not one of the ship's officers; but I could not but suspect at the moment that he was in some special measure concerned in the mission on which the gunboat had been sent.
He pointed to the gunboat in the bay when it came, and called it the divine depository of beneficent power.
They contrived to get a gunboat through, then steamed up the river, turned and rushed down on the cable with such force as to break it!
Our government had at first not a single gunboat to meet them.
The little Confederate gunboat Patrick Henry which had won fame in the first engagement of the Merrimac steamed down into line and joined her fire with the fort.
The Louisiana, the new gunboat of the Confederacy, had been pressed into service with but two of her guns working--but she was of little use and became unmanageable.
A short time before I arrived, the American gunboat Narraganset had suddenly put in an appearance in Apia where Hayston's brig was lying.
It's that old Spanish gunboat from Manila, a 'side wheeler.
The end came by and by, when I nearly lost my head in rescuing Peese from a gunboat in which he lay a prisoner.
Even below the island the gunboat had met with floating wreckage, which the eddy had thrown to the surface.
Certainly the gunboat is chasing us, and that's why we are showing him our heels.
For this, it was worth while to send a gunboat and spies after the fugitive.
The twenty-four rowers in the gunboat required three hours to get from the point where first the "St. Barbara" was seen to the Perigrada Island, where the Danube divides into two arms.
The gunboat was the butt for many good-natured jokes from navy officers, on account of her small dimensions and frail construction.
While the conflict raged the hottest in this quarter the gunboat Tyler passed slowly up the river to a point directly opposite the enemy and poured in a broadside from her immense guns.
The gunboat Lexington in the meantime had arrived from Savannah, and after sending a message to Gen.
But onegunboat steamed cheerfully up to the bank and turned on the maxims, while the other sunk one ‘nuggar’ and captured two.
These, however, fell back without showing fight The same day the gunboat Zafir, the flagship of Captain Keppel, sprang a leak and sank within a few moments.
General Forrest wants some transports, maybe even a gunboat or two.
She was passing the lower battery now, and there was no sign of any gunboat escort.
But when the transport Venus, towing two barges and convoyed by the gunboat Undine, tried to duplicate that feat they were caught by the accurate fire of the masked guns.
The gunboat Essex has dropped anchor opposite us, also another gunboat which I cannot make out.
A gunboat got fast just below us and getting that loose took the rest of the day.
The gunboat Ozart had got fast in the mud by going too close to the opposite bank.
If the artillery had made good practice at that short range the gunboat must have sunk at her moorings.
It was then after midnight, and the land was still ten miles distant, but the ship promptly resumed her role of lame duck, lest a prowling gunboat met and interrogated her.
The navy, on the other hand, supports Dom Miguel Barraca, who supplanted me, and we shall surely meet a cruiser or gunboat at Pernambuco.
This opened to us Ossabaw Sound, and I pushed down to this gunboat to communicate with the fleet.
She proved to be the Dandelion, a tender of the regular gunboat Flag, posted at the mouth of the Ogeechee.
But the Portuguese did not care to do so; he precipitately retreated to his boat, followed by his thoroughly scared men, and half an hour later the gunboat was pelting down stream as fast as her crazy engines would drive her.
Tell him we could wipe him off the face of the earth in a brace of shakes," suggested Captain Jones speaking rapidly and in a low tone so that the captain of the gunboat could not understand.
Aren't you Gregory, who was commander of the gunboat Parcifal in the Egyptian business of 1879?
Gunboat went down post haste, and, like most gunboats, arrived too late to be of any use.
Although Aubyn had been on board the torpedo-gunboat only a week he was thoroughly familiar with the appearance of the little box-room dubbed by courtesy a cabin.
At her anchorage the torpedo-gunboat was pitching slightly to the heave of the open sea.
She was, it is true, an obsolete craft--a torpedo-gunboat of only 800 tons and a speed of nineteen knots.
Throughout June and July the gunboat patrolled the Ohio, going up to the Licking.
To break the monotony of picketing and to subserve the cause of freedom, a most novel scheme was lately undertaken, known as Kilpatrick's Gunboat Expedition.
Much alarm appears to have been created among the Rebels by our gunboat disturbance.
The gunboat Cairo did not arrive at Pittsburg, until after midnight, and at 6 p.
Meantime a large fleet of steamboats was assembling from St. Louis and Cairo, and Admiral Porter dropped down to Memphis with his whole gunboat fleet, ready to cooperate in the movement.
The naval squadron (Admiral Porter) is operating with his gunboat fleet by water, each in perfect harmony with the other.
In about four miles we overtook the gunboat fleet just as it was emerging into Deer Creek.
Now General McClernand had about as much idea of what a gunboat was, or could do, as the man in the moon.
I never knew the losses in the gunboat fleet, or in Morgan's corps; but they must have been less than in mine, which was more exposed.
He explained to me that large reenforcements had been promised, which would reach Memphis very soon, if not already there; that the entire gunboat fleet, then under the command of Admiral D.
Each gunboat returned the fire as she passed the town, while the transports hugged the opposite shore.
The gunboat Eastport and four transports loaded with prisoners of war destined for Vicksburg have been lying before Memphis for two days, but are now steaming up to resume their voyage.
Lilly pijjin squeezee one port, me go along findee gunboat an' catchee kyfong chop chop!
Suddenly, without a moment's warning, a Japanese gunboat loomed through the dun vapour close on the port bow.
She was the Itsuku gunboat of about five hundred tons, on a cruise of observation in the Gulf, along with two or three consorts, whom she had lost in the fog.
The gunboatwas under steam and standing in, returning the fire.
At dusk the gunboat anchored, and a boat was despatched on some errand of reconnaissance.
The Japanese on the gunboat perceived it, for without troubling to hail she opened on us with the machine-guns in her tops.
The gunboat was gone on its patrol, and he had a free hand.
Suppose thatgunboat find me, find out about gold, they will not give me reward.
Their disciplined rank and smartness, the waiting launch, the gunboat in the offing, were ominous with the suggestion of power, the will to administer it.
Mr. Lund think in the back of his head I arrange for that gunboat to come.
A cutter cruising by herself either had to let her go or stand by the dhow, wasting perhaps three or four days, till her gunboat came along to victual her.
I was an ordinary seaman in a gunboat lying off Muscat, and, happening to be ashore one afternoon, with nothing to do, I noticed that there was quite a crowd of natives gathered on the shore.
If they sighted a gunboat or a launch, or any of our people, and there was a risk of being caught and searched, they'd simply drop them overboard and let them hang down in the water suspended from the keel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gunboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
