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The Great Victory of the Japanese Navy off Haiyang Island (First Sino-Japanese War) by Nakamura Shūkō

15th century lake warfare and gunboats

Lake warfare is a less known art of warfare in which smaller boats were used on small water bodies. This is well known in a Swiss setting thanks to the very illustrative Swiss chronicles of 1450-1530, but similar boat designs must have been used all across Europe where sufficiently large lakes connected warring settlements. This illustration aptly shows shows the 15th century with protective roofs and gun-ports cut through the hull; the crew move them with the help of oars and fire arquebuses and crossbows from within. The illusion of a small battleship is completed by the flags and insignia painted on the sides.

1460-1470 Switzerland, Zurich Ms A 120 - Tschachtlan-Berner Chronik

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USS Palos (PG-16) Her crew "manning the rail" on Christmas Day, 1924 Hankou, China.

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From my messmates I gained the following intelligence of what had passed after I had quitted the brig. The fire of the praam had cut them up severely, and Captain Hawkins had been struck in the arm with a piece of the hammock rail, which had been shot away shortly after I left. Although the skin only was razed, he thought proper to consider himself badly wounded; and giving up the command to Mr. Webster, the second lieutenant, had retreated below, where he remained until the action was over. When Mr. Webster reported the return of the boats, with the capture of the gun-boat, and my supposed death, he was delighted, that he quite forgot his wound, and ran on deck, rubbing his hands as he walked up and down.

— Frederick Marryat, Peter Simple

Danish gunboats attacking H.M.S Tigress at Agersø , 1808 by C. W. Eckersberg.

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German gun boats patrol the river Danube - exact date unknown

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All Our Yesterdays: Day 142:

December 12th, 2019 was the date of the general election. This was the day the majority of the British voting public elected Boris Johnson as their leader - a known liar, philanderer and opportunist. The right-wing Tory press were overjoyed.

12.12.19. The Daily Express:

“VICTORY FOR BORIS AND FOR BREXIT!

In just twelve months the mood has changed completely. We were told at the time that Brexit would be “quick and easy", "the easiest thing in human history", with an "oven ready" deal just waiting to be signed, and that trade relations with the EU could be sorted out in “an afternoon over a cup of coffee”.

Exactly one year on from the 2019 election, and the promise to “get Brexit done”, we have the same right-wing press threatening the EU with gun ships if there is a no-deal outcome.

12.12.20. Daily Mail:

“WE’LL SEND IN THE GUNBOATS”

Please! We are so much better than this – aren’t we?