Gun Boat Collection

HMS Sedgefly, river gunboat, Mesopotamia, WW1
HMS Sedgefly, a British river Fly-class gunboat, on the River Tigris in Mesopotamia during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1918

Wreck of HMS Wasp, British gun-boat, at Tory Island, Donegal, north coast of Ireland, 1884

HMS Firefly, river gunboat, Mesopotamia, WW1
HMS Firefly, a British river Fly-class gunboat, with gun in action in Mesopotamia during the First World War. Captured by the Turks in 1915, and recaptured by the British in 1917

Destruction of the rebel ram Arkansas: By the United State gunboat Essex, on the Mississippi River, near Baton Rouge, August 4th 1862. Date 1862?

US ironclad gunboat Essex. Photo shows the USS Essex, launched in 1856 as the New Era and acquired druing the American Civil War by the US Army in 1861 for the Western Gunboat Flotilla

Mississippi River fleet - US gunboat Fort Hindman. Date photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed later

Deep Bottom, Va. US gunboat Mendota (in service May 2, 1864) on the James. Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy - the Federal Navy

Austrian or German ship in harbour, WW1
An Austrian or German ship in harbour, with crew members, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British troops on Jolly Roger gunboat, Russian Civil War
British troops on board the Royal Navy motor gunboat, The Jolly Roger, on Lake Onega, Medevja-Gora (Medvedja-gora, Medvezhya Gora, now known as Medvezhyegorsk, Republic of Karelia)

Insect class river gunboat, Mesopotamia, WW1
An Insect class river gunboat in service in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British sailors on the Tigris, Mesopotamian Campaign, WW1
British sailors on the Tigris in the Mesopotamian Campaign during the First World War. Gunboat crews assisted on the river and in transport work. Date: circa 1917

HMS Severn off the coast of German East Africa, WW1
The British Humber class monitor, HMS Severn, off the coast of German East Africa during the First World War. The fore 6 inch gun can be seen during preparations for the attack on the German cruiser

HM torpedo gunboat, Hazard and seaplane. Participated in a Victoria Cross action in Crete in 1898. Dryard Class torpedo gunboat, she sank in 1918 after colliding with the SS Western Australia

Eugne Farcy / Gill
Eugne Farcy (1830-1910) naval officer, inventor of the Farcy gunboat

Franco-Prussian War. The Defence of Paris: Gunboats on the S
Steam driven armoured gunboat flying the french tricolour

Merchant Ship Captured
A Spanish gunboat stops and takes a merchant vessel

Paris Ablaze / 1871
Paris ablaze

Naval Gun Practice
Warships of the Royal Navy engaged in gun practice

Defence of Le Havre
Le Havre is being bombarded by the English, when PIERRE BASTE, commander of a small gunboat, attacks the attackers. When his vessel is sunk he takes another

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