Recent Examples on the WebHer impetuous plan to sink a German gunboat provides a strong narrative hook that propels the two lovebirds into unexpectedly heroic roles.—Danny Horn, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2024 And in 2013, officials aboard a Venezuelan gunboat detained the crew of a seismic vessel contracted by a Texas petroleum company for a week before releasing them.—Bert Wilkinson, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024 During the chaos, hundreds of enslaved laborers fled into the gunboats.—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023 The first-person video released by the Israeli military shows navy fighters on a gunboat using assault rifles and grenades to blast away at people floating in the water.—Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023 The service had instead invested in coastal anti-ship missile batteries, Bayraktar drones, and small patrol/gunboats.—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023 James Hughes, had taken the precaution of painting large American flags on the gunboat to prevent any mistaken fire.—Brad Lendon, CNN, 26 May 2023 Armed guards in black shirts roam the decks, and gunboats from a navy base in nearby Haifa patrol.—Stanley Reed Ofir Berman, New York Times, 27 July 2023 On April 10, 1868, the former gunboat departed Sitka for San Francisco, where it would be refitted for commercial use.—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
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