Gunboat
Gunboat noun - A small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols.
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Warship
Warship noun - A government ship that is available for waging war.
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Gunboat and warship are semantically related in large boat topic. You can use "Gunboat" instead a noun "Warship".
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In Classic, the Confederate warship line goes from Patrol Ship to Gunboat to Frigate to Cruiser (which in EV refers to a Battlestar/Dreadnought class, not the cruiser class described above).
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Americans entered the ironclad party in 1862 with CSS Virginia, a Confederate ironclad ram built on the unburnt portion of the steam frigate USS Merrimack (not Merrimac) and USS Monitor, a 700-ton gunboat that gave its name to a new type of warship.
Source: Useful Notes / Yanks with Tanks - This type of warship gave the name for Gunboat Diplomacy.
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