motor gunboat

To counter this threat, Lee proposed that motor gunboats be sent to Africa and transported through the interior to the lake.

Eight vessels of this class were lost, and one vessel was lost after conversion to a PGM-9 class motor gunboat.

Sixteen SC-497s were lost and another one was lost after her conversion into a PGM-1 class motor gunboat.

Here we hired a dico and were rowed out to Motor Gunboat F149, moored at the far end of Angelo creek.

The Royal Navy used the 6-pounder extensively in Motor Gunboats during World War II (especially the 'D' type).

In WWI the British motor gunboats which won naval supremacy from the Germans on Lake Tanganyika were armed with the Hotchkiss 3 pounder.

The Asheville-class gunboats were originally designated PGM motor gunboats, but were reclassified in 1967 as PG patrol combatant ships.

USS PGM-4 was a PGM-1 class motor gunboat that served in the United States Navy during World War II.

She was in action again against E-boats, this time off Lowestoft with the corvette HMS Widgeon and HM Motor Gunboats 88 and 91.

The vessels so armed included early models of the famous Fairmile D Motor Gunboats, some of which were not re-armed with the modern autoloading 6 pdr MkIIA until late 1944.

From October 1966 until February 1967, the motor gunboat conducted shakedown operations under Commander Amphibious Group 3 off the U.S. West Coast as far north as Juan de Fuca.

From here Motor Torpedo Boats, Motor Gunboats, and Motor Launches carried out vital operations against enemy naval forces and protected British shipping in the Channel and North Sea.

The PGM-1 class motor gunboats were a class of eight gunboats converted for the United States Navy from 1943-1944 and were succeeded by the PGM-9 class motor gunboat.

During WWII the 6 pounder was the main weapon of the early units of the numerous and successful Fairmile 'D' Class motor gunboats of the Royal Navy, not being entirely replaced by more modern weapons until 1945.

Vernon County performed all of her duties well, servicing and rearming helicopter gunships, providing supplies to her frequent customers - PCF's ("Swift boats") and PGM's (motor gunboats) - and hurling call fire ashore.