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• Forester Class Gunboat (1874)
  Twelve '''''Forester'' class gunboats''' were launched for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1874-1877. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• Insect Class Gunboat (1915)
  Britain launched twelve '''Insect Class Gunboats''' in 1915 and 1916 for riverine use. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• Fly Class Gunboat (1915)
  Britain launched sixteen '''Fly Class Gunboats''' in 1915 and 1916 for use on the Tigris. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• Ant Class Gunboat (1870)
  The '''Ant Class Gunboats''' were "flatiron" vessels designed by George Rendel of [[Armstron The four vessels launched in 1879 are usually listed as a separate class, but were identical except for their date of completion.{{LyonWinfieldSteam
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• Alarm Class Torpedo Gunboat (1892)
  ...he preceeding [[Sharpshooter Class Torpedo Gunboat (1888)|''Sharpshooter'' Class]]. All but three saw service in the First World War, either as minesweeper {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Dryad Class Torpedo Gunboat (1893)
  ...s Destroyer (1894)|first destroyers]], which quickly took over the torpedo gunboat's intended anti-torpedo boat role. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Sharpshooter Class Torpedo Gunboat (1888)
  ...r Class''' set the pattern for the remainder of the Royal Navy's [[Torpedo Gunboat|torpedo gunboats]]. Of the thirteen ''Sharpshooters'', four were built by {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Bramble Class Gunboat (1898)
  Four '''''Bramble'' Class Gunboats''' were completed for the [[Royal Navy]] between 1899 and 1900. There was [[Bramble Class Gunboat (1886)|an earlier class of gunboat with the same name]].
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• Redbreast Class Gunboat (1889)
  Nine '''''Redbreast'' Class Gunboats''' were launched for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1889. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• Pigmy Class Gunboat (1888)
  Six '''''Pigmy'' Class Gunboats''' were launched for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1888. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Bramble Class Gunboat (1886)
  Four '''''Bramble'' Class Gunboats''' were launched for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1886. There was [[Bramble Class Gunboat (1898)|another class of gunboat by the same name]] built a dozen years later.
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• Albacore Class Gunboat (1883)
  Three '''''Albacore'' Class Gunboats''' were launched for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1883. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Banterer Class Gunboat (1880)
  Eleven '''''Banterer'' Class Gunboats''' were launched for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1880-82. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• Yorktown Class Gunboat (1888)
  Three '''''Yorktown'' class gunboats''' were completed for the [[United States Navy]] between 1889 and {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Machias Class Gunboat (1891)
  Two '''''Machias'' class gunboats''' were completed for the [[U.S. Navy]] in 1893-4. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Wilmington Class Gunboat (1895)
  Two '''''Wilmington'' class gunboats''' were completed for the [[United States Navy]] in 1897. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Annapolis Class Gunboat (1896)
  Four '''''Annapolis'' class gunboats''' were completed for the [[United States Navy]] in 1896-7. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Wheeling Class Gunboat (1897)
  Two '''''Wheeling'' class gunboats''' were completed for the [[United States Navy]] in 1897. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Dubuque Class Gunboat (1904)
  Two '''''Dubuque'' class gunboats''' were completed for the [[U.S. Navy]] in 1905. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Palos Class Gunboat (1914)
  Two '''''Palos'' class river gunboats''' were completed for the [[United States Navy]] in 1914. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• U.S.S. Oregon (1893)
  ...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. {{Footer Indiana Class Battleship (1893)}}
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• John Arbuthnot Fisher, First Baron Fisher
  ...and, as I told you last mail, I had the satisfaction of getting a <u>first-class</u> certificate. Well, I came on board the ''Chesapeake'' and handed in my ...iki/HMS_Furious_(1850) H.M.S. 'Furious']; this officer obtained high first class certificates in seamanship and gunnery, and has now passed in navigation un
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• Frederick William Richards
  ...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 ...of the Queen's birthday he was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, in the Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) on 24 May, 1881.{{G
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• Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, First Baron Wester Wemyss
  ...y for the annual manœuvres. On 5 November he was appointed to the second-class cruiser [[H.M.S. Astræa (1893)|''Astræa'']] in the Mediterranean as First ...On 26 August he was appointed Commander (Second-in-Command) of the first-class protected cruiser [[H.M.C.S. Niobe (1897)|''Niobe'']], Captain [[Alfred Lei
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• Forester Class Gunboat (1874)
  Twelve '''''Forester'' class gunboats''' were launched for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1874-1877. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• Anthony Hiley Hoskins
  ...he was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companion, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.) on 2 June.{{ ...mber, 1882, he was knighted and appointed an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, in the Military Division of the Order of the Bath (K.
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• Richard Vesey Hamilton
  ...ry 1856 in the steam sloop Desperate. He was then appointed to command the gunboat Haughty, and reached the Far East in time to participate in the second Chin ...he was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companion, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.) on 29 May, 1
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• Chatham Royal Dockyard
  |{{UK-1Scourge|f=p}}||gunboat||25 Mar, 1871||Disposed of after 1930 |{{UK-Snake|f=p}}||gunboat||25 Mar, 1871||Disposed of after 1907
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• Archibald Peile Stoddart
  ...Squadron". On 17 October, 1883, he was appointed Acting {{LieutRN}} to the gunboat {{UK-1Flirt}} on the Cape station. He was formally promoted to the rank of ...rt Course in Gunnery, in which he obtained First Class marks, and a Second Class Torpedo certificate. He was appointed to the corvette {{UK-2Diamond}} on th
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• Horace Lambert Alexander Hood
  ...where he had his first experience of active service, in command of a river gunboat. For his services in the Sudan, Hood was specially promoted to the rank of ...g George V's coronation he was appointed an Additional Member of the Third Class, or Companion, in the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the
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• Charles Edward Vreeland
  ...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 ...n mid-January, 1897, and served aboard her until he was transferred to the gunboat ''Helena'' at the end of June, whereupon he served through most of the [[Sp
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• Richard James Meade, Fourth Earl of Clanwilliam
  He was appointed Lieutenant and Commander of the gunboat [[H.M.S. Bustard (1855)|''Bustard'']] from 14 December, 1855 to 4 September ...he was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companion, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.) on 2 June, 1
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• Gerald William Vivian
  ..., where he remained until appointed to ''Pembroke'' as [[Commodore, Second Class (Royal Navy)|Commodore]] of the [[Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham]] on 11 Aug *Taylor, Lawrence D. (April 1996). "Gunboat Diplomacy's Last Fling in the New World: The Seizure of San Quintín, April
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• Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
  |{{UK-1Medina|f=p}}||flatiron gunboat||3 Aug, 1876||Sold 1904 |{{UK-2Medway|f=p}}||flatiron gunboat||3 Oct, 1876||Sold 1904
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• Battle of Coronel
  ...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, 'Until ''Defence'' joins keep at least ''Canopus'' and one ''County'' class with your flagship. As soon as you have superior force search the Magellan
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• Robert Falcon Scott
  .../ref> He left the training ship in July, 1883, passing out seventh in his class.<ref>{{TNA|ADM 6/469.}}</ref> On 24 July he was appointed to the corvette Having obtained a First Class certificate in Seamanship with 980 marks (out of a thousand) he was promote
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• James Andrew Thomas Bruce
  ...0}} On 29 December 1900, he was thanked for services rendered to a French gunboat.
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• Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe
  ...of the Torpedo Manual, and on 15 September was appointed in command of the gunboat ''Halcyon'' in the Mediterranean. ''Halcyon'' paid off on 7 May, 1901. He ...}.<ref>ADM 196/42. f. 264.</ref> He was appointed a Member of the Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order dated 25 September, 1906.{{Gaz|27960|7108|23 O
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• Devonport Royal Dockyard
  |{{UK-1Sandfly|f=p}}||torpedo gunboat||20 Sep, 1887||Sold 1905 |{{UK-Spider|f=p}}||torpedo gunboat||17 Oct, 1887||Sold 1903
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• Sheerness Royal Dockyard
  |{{UK-1Grasshopper|f=p}}||torpedo gunboat||30 Aug, 1887||Sold 1905 |{{UK-Pigmy|f=p}}||gunboat||27 Jul, 1888||Sold 4 Apr, 1905
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