HMS Severn joins sister ship Tamar at Portsmouth after gunboats saw off angry French skippers amid row over post-Brexit fishing rules. HMS Severn sailed back to Portsmouth this morning after ...

Two centuries after prowling into Hampton Roads, the size and power of the British fleet sent to punish the Chesapeake Bay region during the War of 1812 can be hard to imagine. Just one of the Roya… ...

HMS Dee and HMS Don were both Medina-class gunboats, being two out of 12 such ships which were built by the Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Company between 1876 and 1877.

Those of us who might have thought the days of gunboat diplomacy were long gone have had to think again. Two Royal Navy vessels, HMS Severnand HMS Tamar, are currently patrolling the waters around ...

Three Iranian gunboats failed in an attempt to seize a British oil tanker in Persian Gulf on Wednesday, ... The HMS Montrose verbally warned the Iranian forces, who then backed off.

In September 1884, a royal navy gunboat, on route to carry out an eviction sunk off the coast of Tory Island in Donegal. Smashed on rocks, she sank in just 15 minutes and 52 men perished.

Gunboat diplomacy will not revive ... It is scarcely surprising that the Russians found the voyage of HMS Defender as intentionally provocative since it had sailed 6,000 miles from Britain ...

Tony New, of Bedhampton, who lent me the photo, tells me it is HMS Grey Goose, a steam gunboat (SGB).They resembled miniature destroyers, were large enough to put to sea in rough weather and could ...

The HMS Levin gunboat was in the same class as the HMS Algerine that bombarded Anping in November 1868. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Pickering personally headed to Wuci, and “with the help of ...

Dear Editor, The upcoming presence of HMS Trent off-shore Georgetown with its 65 crew and cannon aboard is reassuring for all. British Gunboat diplomacy ...

Becalmed off Newport News Point, the 38-gun frigate HMS Junon made a perfect target for the mosquito fleet of 15 gunboats that slipped out of the Elizabeth River under the cover of darkness on the ...