Piecing together this fragmentary material, I created a database of 559 separate episodes where gunboats attacked a target, southerners shot at a federal boat, or there was a mutual fight.

The Spanish gunboats, thirty in number, recently seized by the United States Government, are perhaps an instance of t-e most rapid naval construction on record. As anything pertaining to these ...

"Recently two modern gunboats were added to the fleet which for the present serves Mexico as a navy," says Consul Le Roy. "These gunboats were built in the United States, at Elizabethtown ...

Inaugurating the gunboats to tackle piracy, the IG said, his office was inundated with complaints from people of Bonny, complaining of sea piracy and armed robbery along the waterways.

The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has inaugurated six armoured gunboats donated to the Marine Unit of the Rivers State Police Command to curb crime on the state’s waterways.