Allied Warships

Gunboats


The gunboat USS Charleston of the Erie class.

All Gunboats classes. The list is divided by navy, then ordered by number of ships of that class.


French Navy

 Arras (11)
 Ardent (4)
 Somme (3)
 Dubourdieu (2)
 Friponne (2)
 Ailette (1)
 Albatre (1)
 Altair (1)
 Granit (1)
 Luronne (1)
 Suippe (1)
 Valliante (1)

Royal Dutch Navy

 Gruno (3)

Polish Navy

 General Haller (2)

US Navy

 Asheville (2)
 Dubuque (2)
 Erie (2)
 Sacramento (1)


Please note that we list the classes by navies that initiated/owned the class. Often vessels of certain classes were then built for other nations (or lent), that is not visible here but only through the navies pages or by looking into each class.

War losses: Gunboats


 DateVesselClass

1939

3 Sep 1939ORP General Haller (H)General Haller 

1940

12 May 1940HNMS Friso (i)Gruno 
14 May 1940HNMS BrinioGruno 
18 Jun 1940FR Enseigne HenryDubourdieu 
18 Jun 1940FR EtourdiArdent 
18 Jun 1940FR VauquoisArras 

1941

14 Apr 1941FR ConquéranteValliante 
23 May 1941FR MeuliereAlbatre 

1942

3 Mar 1942USS Asheville (PG-21)Asheville 
27 Nov 1942FR Les EspargesArras 
5 Dec 1942USS Erie (PG-50)Erie 

1944

30 Apr 1944FR TahureArras 

1945

10 Mar 1945FR MarneSomme 

13 Gunboats lost. See all Allied Warship losses.

See all Allied Warship types


Books dealing with this subject include:

Gunboat 658, Reynolds, Leonard Charles, 1955
We Fought Them in Gunboats, Hichens, Robert Peverell, 1957



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