Примеры gunboat

• It appeared especially so for those who were defeated by gunboats and railways from the nineteenth century on.

• Secondly, there is the gunboat diplomacy of threatening to leave if we do not get just what we want.

• We no longer impose our will by gunboat diplomacy.

• I was the first officer in this country to fuel a submarine from a gunboat.

• They complained that we had not given them any gunboats to allow them to defend their borders more effectively.

• Would we use gunboats and insist on boarding such vessels?

• There may be some people who still believe in gunboats, but most sensible people on both sides want to see mutual arms reductions.

• The number of special vessels—gunboats, mining vessels, repair ships, etc.

• At no time did she approach closer than about 200 yards to the gunboat.

• There may be one or two gunboats there, or something of that sort; but the defence forces are quite thin on the ground.

• No, because we do not have the gunboats to send.

• Nobody is asking for that, for a gunboat or anything else.

• It was said that a gunboat ought to be sent to let them through.

• In case of trouble we were able to send out a couple of wooden gunboats, and that was that.

• It was inspected three times in 24 hours because, according to one officer, "the gunboat had nothing else to do".