It was inspected three times in 24 hours because, according to one officer, "the gunboat had nothing else to do".
In case of trouble we were able to send out a couple of wooden gunboats, and that was that.
It was said that a gunboat ought to be sent to let them through.
Nobody is asking for that, for a gunboat or anything else.
No, because we do not have the gunboats to send.
There may be one or two gunboats there, or something of that sort; but the defence forces are quite thin on the ground.
At no time did she approach closer than about 200 yards to the gunboat.
The number of special vessels—gunboats, mining vessels, repair ships, etc.
