After this gesture of politesse, on June 8, 1758, the bombardment began. The British gunboats rained hundreds of shells into the town. "All the women and a great number of little children came out ...

Five Iranian gunboats failed in an attempt to seize a British oil tanker in Persian Gulf on Wednesday, according to US officials cited in a CNN report. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces ...

For the Guardian, the whole episode has echoes of the Cod Wars of the 1970s - when British vessels and Icelandic boats clashed on the high seas. The Times reports that the government is set to ...

"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 ...