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...le & ward-robe. He slept in a hammock, went aloft, etc., like the rest of us.<ref>Fremantle to [[Vincent Wilberforce Baddeley|Baddeley]]. Letter of 4 N ...l Manoeuvres of 1889]], on 6 May, 1890, he was appointed in command of the gunboat {{UK-Thrush}} on the North America Station. He paid off ''Thrush'' on 24 A

...n'' proceeded around Cape Forward to Punta Arenas, where she was joined by gunboat ''[[U.S.S. Marietta (1897)|Marietta]]'', also sailing to the East Coast. {{CatShipPreDreadnought|US}}

...l August, 1869, spending two and a half years in charge of her tender, the gunboat [[H.M.S. Stork (1855)|''Stork'']] and being granted another first-class cer ...and had many irons in the fire in and outside the Admiralty and barked at us if papers came to him which were merely routine but papers would not go thr

...sel in 1861. From March 1862 to January 1866 he commanded the ''Dart'', a gunboat, on the west coast of Africa, and on his return he was promoted to the rank ...humourous. I remember his delight in feeding the birds when he stayed with us at Chillingham, and his complaint, one morning, on going out-doors after br

...mous vessels of the [[Spanish-American War]], the {{US-Olympia}} and the {{US-Oregon}}. An 1892 description of the yards stated that between 1200 and 150 ...ther or not that was true, he certainly benefited from the collapse of the US Shipbuilding combine.

|{{US-Iroquois|f=p}}||sloop||12 Apr, 1859||Wrecked 26 Aug, 1910 |{{US-Lackawanna|f=p}}||screw sloop||9 Aug, 1862||Sold 30 Jul, 1887

|{{US-Huntress|f=p}}||armed yacht||1895||Sold 3 Dec, 1917 |{{US-1Kanawha|f=p}}||armed yacht||1896||Transferred 9 Dec, 1899

...t after successive tours of duty on board the screw steamer ''Alert'', the gunboat ''Ashuelot'' and the sloop-of-war ''Ticonderoga''. He was then assigned to ...til 24 August. He was detached from the ''Dolphin'' to serve aboard the {{US-Olympia|f=p}} on 6 November that same year, but was ordered to the U.S.S. '

''Cormoran'' entered the US territory of Guam on 14 December 1914 with her coal bunkers almost empty. S ...n and a gunboat that had landed part of her armament. The Germans sank the gunboat and bombarded the town but did not enter the harbour in case it was mined,

|{{UK-1Mastiff|f=p}}||gunboat||4 Apr, 1871||Sold 28 Nov, 1931 |{{UK-Bloodhound|f=p}}||gunboat||22 Apr, 1871||Sold 28 Jun, 1921

...ch.{{SMNLJan17|p. 21 and March's Supplement; February was not available to us}} |align=center colspan=6|'''Gunboat'''

* The US Navy's 1945 Submarine Design, by Norman Friedman * CVLs: The US ''Independence'' Class, by Norman Friedman

|{{UK-Firebrand|f=p}}||gunboat||30 Apr, 1877||Sold 1905 |{{UK-1Firefly|f=p}}||gunboat||28 Jun, 1877||Sold 1931

|{{US-1Manley|f=p}}||torpedo boat||1894||Sold 21 Apr, 1920 |{{UK-Robin|f=p}}||river gunboat||1897||Sold Sep, 1928

|{{US-Scipio|f=p}}||Collier||12 Mar, 1880||Sold 28 Dec, 1899 |{{UK-Kinsha|f=p}}||gunboat||1900||Sold 30 Apr, 1921

...fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Albacore''''' was one of three [[Albacore Class Gunboat (1883)|''Albacore'' class gunboats]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]]. ...ar Cork on 12 July, 1893. The collision was quite loud and the American {{US-Chicago|f=t}}, which was moored nearby, cast lights upon the two vessels, a

...med ship, he was assigned to temporary command of the wooden-hulled, screw gunboat ''Nyack'' for six months during 1870. Also whilst serving in ''Mohican'', ...p his tour at Mare Island in 1886, Glass commanded the sidewheel gunboat {{US-1Monocacy}} on the Asiatic Station into 1888.

|{{US-1Yosemite|f=p}}||auxiliary cruiser||16 Mar, 1892||Scuttled 15 Nov, 1900 |{{US-Yankee|f=p}}||auxiliary cruiser||14 Jun, 1892||Wrecked 23 Sep, 1908

|{{US-Stranger|f=p}}||armed yacht||1880||Collision 30 Sep, 1915 |{{US-Terror|f=p}}||monitor||24 Mar, 1883||Sold 10 Mar, 1921

|{{US-Machias|f=p}}||gunboat||8 Dec, 1891||Sold 29 Oct, 1920 |{{US-Castine|f=p}}||gunboat||11 May, 1892||Sold 5 Aug, 1921