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	Gunboat War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gunboat War (1807-1814) was the naval conflict between Denmark-Norway against the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
		While gunboat tactics were not employed until 1807, the naval conflict between Britain and Denmark commenced with the first Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 when Horatio Nelson's squadron of Admiral Parker's fleet attacked the Danish capital.
		In the first three years of the Gunboat War, these boats were on several occasions able to capture cargo ships from the convoys and to defeat British naval brigs, though they were not strong enough to overcome larger frigates and ships of the line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gunboat_War (540 words)

	Napoleonic Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These wars revolutionized the European army and artillery, as well as military systems, and were of a scale never before seen, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription.
		The war was ended by Bonaparte when the Austrians were forced to accept his terms in the Treaty of Campo Formio.
		The Gunboat War effectively ended with a British victory at the Battle of Lyngør in 1812, in which the last large Danish ship — a frigate — was destroyed.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Napoleonic_Wars (6384 words)

	Yantic
		The gunboat went to the northward and eastward of Nantucket during her cruise but, as her commanding officer reported, "obtained no information to justify a longer search for the piratical vessel." Consequently, after a week at sea, Yantic returned to the Philadelphia Navy Yard and commenced her post-trial repairs.
		While operating with the Asiatic Squadron -- precursor of the Asiatic Fleet and the 7th Fleet -- the gunboat put ashore her landing force at Shanghai, China, on 3 May 1874, in company with the landing party from the sidewheeler Ashuelot to aid in quelling a riot by the local natives.
		Accordingly, the Civil-War gunboat was recommissioned in 1917 and assigned as a training ship at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill. After the armistice, she was struck from the Navy list on 24 July 1919 and ordered sold.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/gunboats/yantic.htm (1173 words)

	History of the US Gunboat Navy
		Some 23 of these coastal gunboats were constructed between 1588 and 1923; their roles were those flag-showing and blustering ventures which epitomized the catch-phrase "gunboat diplomacy." The gunboat was briefly revived in the mid-30s with the Erie and Charleston sisters (PG-50 and -51).
		We had Patrol Gunboats in the Second World War but this designation was assigned to the reverse lend-lease Canadian-built corvettes of the Flower Class, designed for anti-submarine convoy escort, during the U-boats’ "happy hunting" period off the American east coast in ‘42-’43.
		It was at first hoped that the new gunboats could handle most of their own maintenance problems but it was apparent that the jet-powered craft were as finicky as their airborne counterparts and could not survive for long away from specialized base facilities tailored to their needs.
	www.gunboatriders.com /pubs/history_of_the_us_gunboat_navy.html (5679 words)

	USS Vicksburg II
		The second Vicksburg (Gunboat No. 11) was laid down in March 1896 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath IronWorks, launched on 6 December 1896; sponsored by Miss Trowbridge, and placed in commission at the Portsmouth (N.H.) Navy Yard on 23 October 1897, Comdr.
		The gunboat departed San Francisco on 16 June and headed south to the coast of Mexico and the Isthmus of Panama.
		That German influence was particularly strong in Mexico during the war is evidenced by the fact that Germany started reasonably serious negotiations to persuade Mexico to enter the war on the side of the Central Powers.
	www.multied.com /Navy/gunboat/vicksburgII.html (1574 words)

	USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The U.S.S. Cairo was one of seven ironclad gunboats named in honor of towns along the upper Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
		Over the years the gunboat was soon forgotten and her watery grave was slowly covered by a shroud of silt and sand.
		Hopes of lifting the ironclad and her cargo of artifacts intact were crushed in October of 1964 when the three inch cables being used to lift the Cairo cut deeply into its wooden hull.
	www.nps.gov /vick/cairo/cairo.htm (720 words)

	Guardian \| Wrong war, wrong time, wrong enemy, warns Labour rebel
		But he warned: "We are having a 19th-century gunboat war in the Gulf, when the real dangers of terrorism should be isolated and dealt with as the first priority.
		Mr Kilfoyle took exception to the prime minister's suggestion that opponents of the war were behaving in a similar way to the appeasers of the 1930s.
		"War is the last resort so I have to ask myself, 'Is it essential now, this week?"' She appeared to align herself with the No votes when she went on to suggest that the UN weapons inspectors were starting to "draw teeth" and should be given more time.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4628005-103685,00.html (3145 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / GUNBOAT WAR AT VICKSBURG
		A commonplace among historians, of course, holds that the longer the eyewitness to past events waits to record his or her impressions, the less faithful to those events they are apt to be.
		We loaded all the gunboats with cotton as we retreated then burned the gins and all the cotton we couldn’t carry.
		True, the Confederates confronting the admiral’s gunboats at first numbered only 250, mostly snipers, but they were soon strongly reinforced from Vicksburg by three regiments and a section of artillery which came on transports by way of the Sunflower River to Rolling Fork.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1978/5/1978_5_62.shtml (4836 words)

	Small Wars Journal
		Small Wars Journal facilitates and supports the exchange of information among practitioners, thought leaders, and students of Small Wars, in order to advance knowledge and capabilities in the field.
		“Small Wars” is an imperfect term used to describe a broad spectrum of spirited continuation of politics by other means, falling somewhere in the middle bit of the continuum between feisty diplomatic words and global thermonuclear war.
		The “three block war” construct employed by General Krulak is exceptionally useful in describing the tactical and operational challenges of a Small War and of many urban operations.
	www.smallwarsjournal.com /site/about.htm (723 words)

	British Warship Losses in Danish-Norwegian Waters 1807-1814
		Denmark's "gunboat war" was the Napoleonic Wars' version of a type of naval operations which are now referred to as "coastal warfare," primarily involving smaller types of naval vessels - typically, convoy escorts or small attack craft.
		The predominately small-vessel character of Denmark's "gunboat war" did not mean that larger English warships were never placed in combat peril by Denmark's gunboats.
		Though designed as a royal yacht, due to the exigencies of war the Danes apparently pressed the SØE-ORMEN into employment as a light combat vessel - the lines of her hull indicate she was designed for speed, and was therefore suitable to conduct offensive operations against British convoys.
	www.milhist.dk /englandskrigene/erobringer/britiske_tab.htm (2497 words)

	Gunboats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gunboats and sloops were the mainstay of the blockading fleet.
		They were expected to cope with ships of their own group, while the raiders and privateers preyed on the enemy's merchant marine.
		The following gunboats were selected at random to give the reader some idea of the varity of types used by both the Union and Confederate Navy.
	www.civilwarhome.com /gunboats.htm (147 words)

	Gunboat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An important characteristic of these was the ability to operate in rivers, enabling them to reach inland targets in a way not otherwise possible before the development of aircraft.
		Post-World War II, the terms "motor gunboat" came to be used for smaller vessels, with displacements in the 500-ton range.
		US river gunboats in the Vietnam War became known as the "Brownwater Navy".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gunboat (577 words)

	USS Yantic
		Yantic—a wooden-hulled screw gunboat built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard—was launched on 19 March 1864 and commissioned on 12 August 1864, Lt. Comdr.
		While operating with the Asiatic Squadron—precursor of the Asiatic Fleet and the 7th Fleet—the gunboat put ashore her landing force at Shanghai, China, on 3 May 1874, in company with the landing party from the sidewheeler Ashuelot to aid in quelling a riot by the local natives.
		Accordingly, the Civil War gunboat was recommissioned in 1917 and assigned as a training ship at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill. After the armistice, she was struck from the Navy list on 24 July 1919 and ordered sold.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/gunboat/Yantic.html (1157 words)

	Spectrex Inc. - News - SharpEye IR3 Protects USS Cairo
		The USS Cairo is a Civil War vintage gunboat on display at the Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi.
		The Cairo's mission during the American Civil War was part of the North's plan to control the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy.
		However, on December 12, 1862, the gunboat was sunk by the first-ever electrically detonated torpedo.
	www.spectrex-inc.com /news/usscairo.htm (264 words)

	REVOLUTIONARY
		Their perseverance was rewarded--the French joined the war on the side of the colonies.
		The gunboat was part of a 15-ship squadron led by Arnold in the ``Battle of Valcour Island'' in 1776.
		One of the gunboats, the Philadelphia, was found and raised in 1935.
	schools.lwsd.org /RHJH/homehelp/revwar/rwar/revolutionary.htm (3210 words)

	MS State News: Civil War gunboat battles ravages of time
		The USS Cairo's voyage to the bottom of the Yazoo River more than 140 years ago was only the beginning of a battle for survival the resurfaced Civil War gunboat is fighting today against the ravages of time.
		In a modern-day struggle to prevent the aged oak vessel's destruction by rain, rust, termites, and birds, the National Park Service is calling on a team of Mississippi State experts who specialize in preventing the deterioration of wood.
		With its restoration completed in 1984, the gunboat and its artifacts were placed on public display along a tour road at the USS Cairo Museum.
	www.msstate.edu /web/media/detail.php?id=2330 (995 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Kerry Opens Campaign on War Theme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the USS Yorktown at his back, crewmates from his Vietnam War gunboat at his side and flags fluttering in the wind, Kerry left little doubt that much of his campaign will be centered on his combat heroism three decades ago and his ability to challenge Bush on national security.
		Unlike Kerry, Dean was not in a position to vote on the congressional war resolution, but Dean says he would have opposed it.
		This is not the first time Kerry has supported fighting a war only to raise questions about it afterward.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A13394-2003Sep2?language=printer (1162 words)

	Arnold ship called treasure in lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BASIN HARBOR, Vt. — The Revolutionary War gunboat sitting at the bottom of Lake Champlain has received federal recognition as an American treasure.
		The 54-foot gunboat, part of Benedict Arnold’s fleet that fought the British during the Battle of Valcour in 1776, was discovered in 1997 during a lake-bottom survey by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.
		With that in mind, officials are studying their choices: either leave the boat on the lake bottom and hope the mussels don’t harm it or remove the boat from the lake and preserve it for public display.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/1999/11_1999/112619993.htm (749 words)

	Gunboat Democracy - by Jude Wanniski
		Bush and his team are now taking the elections in Iraq and signs of democratic political change elsewhere in the Mideast as justification for his taking the United States to war, although no mention of spreading the gospel of democracy was mentioned at the time.
		Bush's pro-war supporters in Congress and the news media are already trumpeting a prediction that he will go down in history for forcing change upon those elites who have long resisted freedom and democracy for their people.
		But they were fully in accord with his view that the sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1991 after the Gulf War should not be lifted until Saddam was gone from power, no matter how much he cooperated with the United Nations.
	www.antiwar.com /wanniski/?articleid=5388 (1552 words)

	USS Ironclad Galena Civil War Navy Ship
		Commissioned in April 1862 as the second of the U.S. Navy's first three armored warships, she was immediately sent to Hampton Roads, Virginia, to join the Navy's pioneer ironclad Monitor in containing CSS Virginia.
		She decommissioned in June 1865 and was thereafter inactive except for a brief time in the spring of 1869.
		Ringle is among the first to examine the many aspects of sailors' lives during the American Civil War.
	americancivilwar.com /tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships/Union_Ship_Galena.html (951 words)

	McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books
		Twelve minutes later, the gunboat slipped beneath the surface approximately eight miles north of Vicksburg, where it remained for exactly 102 years.
		When researchers raised it in 1964, they were amazed to find many of its compartments and artifacts perfectly intact, almost as if the sailors had intended that their ship serve as a time capsule.
		Today, the Cairo is a snapshot of life aboard a Union gunboat, and affords a well-preserved glimpse into the past.
	www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2257-2 (211 words)

	Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Gunboat commanded by Benedict Arnold found 6/30/97
		A wooden vessel from the Revolutionary War believed to be commanded by Benedict Arnold was found, intact, at the bottom of Lake Champlain, Vermont.
		FERRISBURGH, Vt. (AP) - A Revolutionary War gunboat that was part of a fleet commanded by Benedict Arnold before he turned traitor has been found sitting upright at the bottom of Lake Champlain, astonishingly well-preserved by the cold, deep water for the past 220 years.
		The wooden vessel, which was either abandoned or scuttled by retreating American forces after a losing 1776 battle against the British, was found by a team scanning the lake for wrecks before they become encrusted by a new invader, the tiny zebra mussel.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/070197/fea_boat.html (705 words)

	Page Title
		Arizona, a Union gunboat that caught fire and sank in the Mississippi River in 1865.
		Tom Veilleux of the USS Arizona Civil War Gunboat Foundation said the wreckage is about two-thirds exposed above the river bottom, near the mouth of the river.
		Some said the hard-fought battle, forever remembered by participants for its sheer savagery and for their commanders' confusion, was the worst battle of the war, losing the last chance to bring the Commonwealth into the Confederacy and leaving Kentucky firmly under Federal control.
	webpages.charter.net /danwilly/page8.html (435 words)

	PR-5 USS Panay
		On the 11th the gunboat embarked the American officials together with a number of civilians, and started upriver, escorting three Standard Oil barges that also wished to escape.
		But the United States government was so anxious to avoid war that it accepted the "mistake" theory, together with an indemnity.
		The strike was made on the basis of army intelligence, not on the orders of Colonel Hashimoto; the Japanese naval aviators thought they were bombing enemy troops escaping up-river in Chinese merchant ships.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/PR/pr5-sinking.html (687 words)

	Georgia Civil War Commission: Civil War Naval Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The stern section, salvaged by Columbus volunteers just prior to the Civil War Centennial, is of particular interest because no other Civil War ship's engine of this type remains.
		Columbus is conducting a capital campaign to fund construction of a new museum to open in early 2000.
		Otherwise, this rarest of rare Civil War engineering artifacts will continue to deteriorate and be lost to coming generations.
	www.state.ga.us /civilwar/museum.html (165 words)

	THE GOVERNOR AND THE GUNBOAT: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		as soon as war was declared all the stores and business places were closed and goods removed.
		While the gunboat patrols served the Federal cause by effectively keeping Palatka out of the Confederate war inventory, Southern loyalists remained frightened and convinced that any appearance of a Union boat might be a prelude to the all-out attack that rumors had so long predicted.
		Hale is always referred to by the menacing term "gunboat." According to Civil War naval historian, Admiral David D. Porter, however, it was in fact a small steam-powered, shallow draft, tugboat which boasted a small cannon designed for defensive use.
	organizations.ju.edu /fch/1994doherty.htm (2877 words)

	CIVIL WAR GUNBOAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Graduate students from East Carolina University have begun the partial excavation of an American Civil War gunboat that has rested in the murky depths of a Tar River tributary for more than 130 years.
		The project is aimed at assessing the overall condition of the vessel.
		The Confederate Navy built the gunboat in Washington, N.C., but scuttled it in the creek before completion to prevent its capture by Union forces.
	www.news.ecu.edu /releases/gunboat.html (313 words)

	Gunboat Helena
		The Gunboat HELENA was constructed at the Newport News Shipbuilding Company in Newport News, Virginia, being launched on January 30, 1896.
		The gunboat escorted the Army's Fifth Corps transports from Florida to Cuba, and bombarded Siboney (Ensenada de los Altares) as a feint while troops were being landed at Daiquiri.
		The gunboat was actually designed for river service in China, and was provided with oversized rudders and a combined military mast and conning tower.
	www.spanamwar.com /Helena.htm (702 words)

	What's new? - 2001 Archive # 2
		The carrier is USS Hancock (CV/CVA-19), whose long career extended from the last year of World War II to the end of the Vietnam conflict in 1975.
		This week's efforts consist exclusively of "a lotta ships", of which by far the largest presentation is on the German Second World War battleship Scharnhorst, including many views from the album of a sailor who served on her in 1939-40.
		There are two new people: Harold E. Stassen, a World War II reserve officer and long-time political figure who passed away last week, and Quartermaster James Miller, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his conduct on Christmas Day, 1863.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/wn-ar012.htm (1405 words)

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