gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
vessels — a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.
bowls — a game played on a bowling green in which a small bowl (the jack) is pitched from a mark and two opponents or opposing teams take turns to roll biased wooden bowls towards it, the object being to finish as near the jack as possible
