9 adjectives to describe gunboat

It was a snug berth, and a fairly isolated onea rakish-looking little gunboat being our nearest neighbour.

Using muffled sweeps, with consummate skill he slipped all his remaining vessels between the mainland and the nearest British gunboat, and was well on his way to Crown Point before his escape had been discovered.

It was a snug berth, and a fairly isolated onea rakish-looking little gunboat being our nearest neighbour.

Through a squall of wind and rain, out from the line of ships, four of their consorts glided away eastward, flashing and howling, in chase of the overmatched gunboats, that flashed and howled in retort as they fled.

Moreover, the points which at first should not be considered as sufficiently guarded might be strengthened by the king's gunboats, and, indeed, in all of them it would be advisable to station some of the latter, commanded by a select officer, to whose orders the captains of the provincial gunboats ought to be made subservient.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: I submit herewith a list of naval officers who commanded vessels engaged in the recent brilliant operations of the squadron commanded by Flag-Officer Farragut, which led to the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of rebel gunboats, rams, etc., in April, 1862.

We are in the midst of the Yellow Sea, going about eight knots, dragging a gunboat astern to save her coal.

And, lastly, just under Morgan's north side, close on the channel's eastern edge, rode, with her three small gunboats, the Tennessee, ugly to look at but worse to meet, waiting, watching, as up here in Fort Powell, smiling at the scurviness of their assignment, watched and waited Kincaid's Battery.

"We require for the fleet more fast gunboats of the Curlew and Landrail type.

9 adjectives to describe  gunboat