Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A yakin duniya na farko, a lokacin da Birtaniya ta ci nasara da Ottoman Mesopotamia, 'yan Indiya da Thames River sun yi amfani da su don samar da sojojin Janar Charles Townsend, a cikin Siege na Kut
da kuma Fall of Baghdad (1917). Jirgin ruwan Tigris ya hada da jiragen ruwa Clio, Espiegle, Lawrence, Odin, jirgin ruwa mai dauke da makamai na Comet, Lewis Pelly, Miner, Shaitan, Sumana, da kuma jirgin ruwa mai suna Muzaffari / Muzaffar. Wadannan sun haɗu da Royal Navy Fly-class gunboats Butterfly, Cranefly, Dragonfly, Mayfly, Sawfly, Snakefly, da Mantis, Moth, da kuma Tarantula.