Flat-iron gunboats (more formally known as Rendel gunboats) were a number of classes of coastal gunboats generally characterised by small size, low freeboard...
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HMQS Gayundah (category Gayundah-class gunboats)
HMQS Gayundah was a flat-iron gunboat operated by the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and later the Royal Australian Navy (as HMAS Gayundah). She entered...
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indigenous South African sheep breed HMSAS Afrikander, Navy, Gadfly-class flat-iron gunboat Some species of Gladiolus This disambiguation page lists articles...
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HMCS (later HMAS) Protector was a large flat-iron gunboat commissioned and purchased by the South Australian government in 1884, for the purpose of defending...
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HMSAS Afrikander (category Ant-class gunboats of the South African Navy)
HMS Tickler was a Royal Navy Gadfly-class flat-iron gunboat launched in 1879. She was transferred to Simon's Town in South Africa in 1885 and converted...
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Chin-ou (金甌) and sometimes referred to as Jinou, was an ironclad flat-iron gunboat built for the Imperial Chinese Navy. She was completed in 1875 at...
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The Ant-class gunboat was a class of twenty-four Royal Navy flat-iron gunboats mounting a single 10-inch gun, built between 1870 and 1880. They carried...
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HMS Thunderer, renamed in 1869. HMS Comet (1870) was an Ant-class flat-iron gunboat launched in 1870 and sold for breaking in 1908. HMS Comet (1910) was...
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In the 1870s and 1880s, Britain took to building so-called "flat-iron" (or Rendel) gunboats for coastal defence. When there would be few opportunities...
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