Porter served as first lieutenant of the sidewheel gunboat under Commander Josiah Tattnall. The first , a sidewheel gunboat, began charting the Yangtze River in 1871. Grapeshot killed Hawkey while he was boarding his second gunboat. The British made a show of naval force (gunboat diplomacy) in 1896 and 1897. The British Army brought in thousands of reinforcements as well as artillery and a gunboat. U.S. Navy SEALs destroyed Noriega's private jet and a Panamanian gunboat. They sank one gunboat and one escaped. "Arashi" assisted in sinking the gunboat . This type of vessel overlaps with the river gunboat. He then continued to Ambon city where he attacked an Indonesian Navy gunboat at anchor. Troops from a Union gunboat landed at Greenville. During this period the Royal Navy was used for evacuation and gunboat diplomacy. Oppenheimer rejected the idea of nuclear gunboat diplomacy. The Haitian Navy was created in 1860 with the commissioning of a single gunboat. The trio then escape by boat but are attacked by a gunboat.