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Flagstaff top, experimental coastal patrol and interdiction craft at center, and the PTF-23 bottom, off the coast of southern California in August 1974. USS Flagstaff (PGH-1) was the only Flagstaff-class patrol gunboat and was acquired by the United States Navy because of her relatively low cost and very high speed.
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A punt gun is a type of extremely large shotgun used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations. These weapons are characteristically too large for an individual to fire from the shoulder or often carry alone, but unlike artillery pieces, punt guns are able to be aimed and fired by a single person from a mount.
The 5 cm SK L/40 gun was primarily used as an anti-torpedo boat gun aboard avisos, corvettes, gunboats, protected cruisers, submarines, torpedo boats, and unprotected cruisers. It was used by the navies of the German Empire, Nazi Germany, Belgium, and The Netherlands. Ship classes that carried the 5 cm SK L/40 include: A-class torpedo boats
The gun that such boats carried could be quite heavy; a 32-pounder for instance. As such boats were cheap and quick to build, naval forces favoured swarm tactics: while a single hit from a frigate's broadside would destroy a gunboat, a frigate facing a large squadron of gunboats could suffer serious damage before it could manage to sink them all.
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The two guns on the gun deck were mounted 10 feet (3.0 m) above the waterline, while the other four were 18 feet (5.5 m) above. [2] The guns fired 105-pound (48 kg) armor-piercing projectiles with a propellant charge weighing 18.8 pounds (8.5 kg) at 1,950 feet per second (590 m/s).
2 × 12.7 mm machine guns 81 mm mortar (some units) The PGM-39 -class gunboats , designated Patrol Gunboat, Motor [ a ] by the United States Navy were a class of fifty nine gunboats constructed in various shipyards from 1959–1970.