This fleet consisted of four principal warships and three gunboats. Cruisers and destroyers and Fly-class gunboats also patrolled. The ceasefire ended when the LTTE attacked several docked naval gunboats. The 3rd Division consisted of the smaller screw gunboats and armed merchantmen. There was a squadron of Confederate gunboats waiting above the forts. The Confederate troops began coming under fire from the gunboats. Eight other Gatling guns were fitted on gunboats. The vessels serving with the US Navy were known as Temptress and "Action"-class patrol gunboats. The fleet anchored off Grande Terre and the gunboats attacked. They had 28 gunboats commanded by Commodore Samuel Dupont. The militia also had a navy consisting of two small gunboats. In May 1814, Perry took command of a squadron of seven gunboats based in Newport. Survivors were later taken aboard the American vessel and the British gunboats and . Union troops were forced to take shelter under cover of their gunboats. With about 300 men, supported by two gunboats, they shelled Fernandina.