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	USS Villalobos I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On 20 November 1902, the gunboat was decommissioned at Cavite.
		Thus the former Spanish gunboat commenced her service with the Yangtze Patrol—"showing the flag" on the mighty river of what the Chinese had called "the Middle Kingdom." China, once a power of stature perhaps unequalled, had become a collection of feuding states as strongmen leaders arose in various geographical areas to war on their neighbors.
		But with the river dropping one foot per day, if the ship were not soon refloated, she would be there until winter.
	www.navyhistory.com /gunboat/villalobosI.html (2118 words)

	Foreign and Domestic River Gunboats in China
		Of the German gunboats in China during the relevant period, four were very large (900 to 1,100 tons) and I have doubts they could have traversed anything other than the lower waterways (but I have seen it stated that they could).
		River gunboats were generally not designed to take to the open sea as their low drafts made them unstable.
		The defining factor of a river gunboat is therefore whether she was able to manage upper river service, despite the fact that she may have only been able to so for several months out of the year.
	www.hmsfalcon.com /foreign/foreign.htm (3725 words)

	River monitor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		River monitors were used on inland waterways -- rivers and lakes.
		On the Danube, river monitors were employed during World War I by Austro-Hungary, then by Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia (approximately 500 tons displacement).
		River monitors were used mainly during the American Civil War, playing an important role in the Mississippi River Campaigns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_monitor (281 words)

	USS Oahu I
		One of six river gunboats built for use on the Yangtze Kiang in south central China, Oahu departed Shanghai on her shakedown cruise 3 November 1928, proceeding upriver to Chungking, 1300 miles inland, stopping at the open treaty ports enroute and returning to Shanghai 2 June 1929.
		In the course of her service with the Yangtzc Patrol Force, thc gunboat convoyed Amerioan and foreign merchantmen up and down the river, supplied armed guards to U.S. and British river craft, landed bluejackets at treaty ports threatened by unrest and evaouated foreign nationals in times of danger.
		Whenever the warship attempted to cruise the river on regular patrol, she was convoyed by Japanese minesweepers that kept watch on her movements while protecting her from attacks by their planes.
	www.multied.com /Navy/gunboat/oahuI.html (454 words)

	The Hawk Eye Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Owens gave the command and the ropes holding the gunboat to the shore were cut and its crew frantically rowed into the shoal waters behind the island.
		One of the gunboat crew shouted out he had been shot but the ferry boat did not close to finish the business, for Captain French was unwilling to risk his craft in the shallow waters.
		The gunboat made its escape but the farmers drew satisfaction that once again they had rid their shores of this evil influence by using a tried and true method.
	www.thehawkeye.com /columns/Hansen/2000/cha4900.html (878 words)

	Civil War Warship Innovation
		USS Eastport, a 570-ton ironclad river gunboat and ram, was originally built at New Albany, Indiana, in 1852 as a civilian side-wheel steamer.
		USS Essex, a 1000-ton river gunboat, was converted in stages from the steam ferry New Era.
		As a gunboat, renamed for the State's Governor, her stem was reinforced for ramming by two strips of flat railroad iron at the waterline, strapped and bolted in place, with pine lumber and cotton-bale barricades to protect her boilers.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/civil-war1.htm (4230 words)

	Mid-Missouri Civil War Round Table: USS Cairo
		The gunboat Cairo was nicknamed the HARD LUCK IRONCLAD after her first engagement with the enemy in early 1862.
		She lay idle on the Cumberland river for several weeks; then she was ordered to the Tennessee River, reaching Savannah, Tenn., where Grant had his headquarters, on the evening of March 31st.
		At dawn, the Confederate fleet, consisting of eight rams and gunboats and facing such a shortage of coal that it was unthinkable to go farther downstream, drew up in line in front of the city to await battle.
	mmcwrt.missouri.org /2002/default0210.htm (4927 words)

	Tyler
		On the 29th, she joined another expedition up the Yazoo, and it resulted in the fall of the important fortifications on Haynes Bluffs on 1 May. That operation was the gunboat's last major role in the reduction of Vicksburg which surrendered to Union forces on Independence Day 1863.
		The beginning of 1865 found her still on the White River; but, by May, she was at Memphis, Tenn. In June, Tyler moved to Mound City, 111., where she remained until sold at auction there on 17 August 1865 to Mr.
		Tyler—a projected Buckley-class destroyer escort designated DE-567—was assigned to the United Kingdom on 10 June 1943; and her keel was laid down on 6 October 1943 at Hingham, Mass., by the Bethelehem Steel Co. The ship was launched on 20 November 1943 and delivered to the Royal Navy under lend-lease on 14 January 1944.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t10/tyler.htm (1485 words)

	SOFIA - Data Exchange - Methodology - Southwest Coast Estuarine River Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Several methods were used in the study to describe the magnitude and distribution of flow and salinity at the estuarine rivers along the southwest coastline of Everglades National Park (ENP).
		Raw data at Turner River, Lopez River, and New River, were recorded by an electronic data logger and transmitted every 4 hours by way of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) into the database of the USGS Center for Water and Restoration Studies in Miami, Florida.
		Raw data at Barron River, ENP boundary marker near Chatham River mouth, and ENP boundary marker near Shark Point, were recorded by an electronic data logger, and manually stored into the database of the USGS Center for Water and Restoration Studies in Miami, Florida.
	sofia.usgs.gov /exchange/swcoast_est/swcestmethod.html (644 words)

	The Yangtze Patrol and South China Patrol - The U.S. Navy in China 1854-1942
		April 5, 1941) - River gunboat, first of the new six built on similar plans in three sizes from material sent from the United States and assembled by Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works, Shanghai, 1927.
		Decommissioned and sunk by gunfire of the Chinese coast 21 November 1928..
		A little tin gunboat on a narrow river is no match in a fight with a Chinese army equipped with modern heavy artillery.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/5047/yangpatships.html (997 words)

	Reminiscences Of The Confederate States Navy
		The enemy's gunboats were allowed to take on board their armaments, to receive their sailors, and with a fleet of transports and men to bring the first disaster to the Southern arms -- the capture of forts Donalson and Henry.
		That same gunboat Carondelet was afterwards engaged in the Yazoo river by the Arkansas, under the heroic I. Brown, and after an action of twenty minutes (the Arkansas using only her two bow guns, 8 inch), the Carondelet was driven ashore riddled, disabled and colors down.
		The river was obstructed by schooners anchored across the river, in line abreast, between the forts, and chains and lines were passed from vessel to vessel; but a passage was left open near each bank.
	www.civilwarhome.com /reminiscencescsn.htm (12597 words)

	CSS Neuse - History
		On the northern side the river has a gentle slope to a stream, which, in 1862, was bordered by a swamp in which there was a somewhat dense growth of tall timber.
		A gunboat was in course of building, and stood, propped on rollers, in the upper end of the swamp, and near the river not far from the bridge.
		The gunboats are completed with exception of the iron plating, and the mechanics are delayed in their work waiting for it.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hs/neuse/history.htm (6069 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-A Short Philatelic History of The Yangtze Patrol by George Saqqal-
		The gunboat coolies augmented their $5.00 monthly stipend with "squeeze" which can best be described as payment for services rendered like haircuts, shaves, shoeshines, etc. "Squeeze" was billed monthly and collected promptly on payday from the sailors.
		Gunboats regularly sent landing parties ashore to protect their country's nationals as well as those of other countries if their own gunboats were busy elsewhere.
		In the spring of 1930 GUAM was at Chungking with British, French and Japanese gunboats; Tutu as at Wanhsien with a British gunboat and PANAY was at Ichang.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/PhilatelicHistoryofTheYan.html (14008 words)

	USS GUAM
		April 5, 1941) - River gunboat, first of the new six built on similar plans in three sizes from material sent from the United States and assembled by Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works, Shanghai, China in 1927.
		In the early 1930s severe floods along the entire river valley brought the gunboats and additional ships of the Asiatic Fleet into action again, this time in the humanitarian cause of aiding the millions of Chinese left homeless by the catastrophe.
		Japanese river operations effectively bottled up the river for neutral gunboats, and their proximity to war zones produced incidents such as the sinking of the Panay (PR-6) by Japanese aircraft on 12 December 1937.
	members.tripod.com /~lph9/pw3.htm (455 words)

	Day 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Capturing Vicksburg was crucial to the Union forces, as it would virtually assure Union control of the entire Mississippi River and sever the western Confederate states from the main body of the South.
		, was a "coal heaver" on the Mississippi River gunboat USS Benton of the Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla.
		He served on the gunboat for most of 1862, and was involved in several engagements, including the captures of Island Number Ten, Fort Pillow and Memphis.
	prometheusli.com /MC/Arizona2005/Day15.htm (554 words)

	The Civil War Tinclad U.S.S. Rattler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		USS Marmora, a 207-ton stern-wheel "tinclad" river gunboat, was built in 1862 at Monongahela, Pennsylvania, as the civilian steamer Marmora Number 2.
		Purchased by the Navy and converted to a gunboat, she was commissioned October 1862.
		During the rest of 1862, she took part in mine clearance and other operations in the Yazoo River.
	www.28thwisconsin.com /service/marmora.html (130 words)

	SOFIA - Data Exchange - Format - Southwest Coast Estuarine River Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The data are separated by individual stations and water year (October 1 to September 30) from 2001 to 2004 for nine of the eleven monitoring stations.
		Salinity and water temperature generally were measured within a few feet of the water surface (near surface) and within a few feet of the river bottom (near bottom).
		Stage is reported in feet relative to NAVD 88 or local datum (as noted), discharge in cubic feet per second, salinity in parts per thousand, and temperature in degrees Celsius.
	sofia.usgs.gov /exchange/swcoast_est/swcestformat.html (172 words)

	USS Essex Civil War Union Navy River Gunboat
		USS Essex, a 1000-ton ironclad river gunboat, was converted in stages from the steam ferry New Era.
		On 6 February, she was badly damaged by enemy gunfire during an attack on Fort Henry, Tennessee.
		Born and nurtured in war, America grew in strength and power until at the beginning of the 21st century it was the foremost military power in the world.
	americancivilwar.com /tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships/USS_Essex.html (928 words)

	Grand Excursion Preview Harpers Ferry
		In Iowa, the river road retreats up to the ridge in a couple of stretches where there was barely room to carve a narrow notch for the railroad tracks.
		Harpers Ferry is a quiet place in the winter, with only 330 residents, but in the summer several thousand people populate the trailers and cottages in town, most to be close to the maze of sloughs and backwaters in the river.
		The gunboat, Warrior, called up from Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien, Wis., shot many of the band as they tried to swim across the river.
	www.big-river.com /GEMA3.html (568 words)

	USS C.P. Williams
		Carondelet, an ironclad river gunboat, was built in 1861 by James Eads and Co., St. Louis, Mo., under contract to the War Department, commissioned 15 January 1862 at Cairo, III., naval Captain H. Walke in command, and reported to Western Gunboat Flotilla (Army), commanded by naval Flag Omeer A. Foote.
		Without her and her sisters and other naval forces, the great operations on the rivers would not have been possible and Northern Victory might not have been won.
		From 7 March to 15 May 1864, she sailed with the Red River Expedition, and during operations in support of Army movements ashore, took part in the Bell's Mill engagement of December l864 For the remainder of the war, Carondelet patrolled in the Cumberland River.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/CWNavy/CArondelet.html (245 words)

	Production Notes from "The Sand Pebbles"
		The gunboat, built in Hong Kong, was brought to Taiwan for four and one-half months of filming.
		The gunboat was a permanent resident and departed for mid-river work three or four mornings a week.
		In the 1800's and through the early 1900's, river pirates sometimes blocked off waters with an array of junks bound together by a heavy bamboo rope.
	www.thesandpebbles.com /production/production.html (1424 words)

	Pattaya Trader Film Review
		This was the Phra Chulachomklao Fort, designed to command the river mouth and for a distance of two kilometres upriver.
		The French gunboats, with a French merchant ship, the Jean Baptiste Say as a pilot, sailed towards the entrance of the Chao Phrya River on 15 July.
		The Jean Baptiste Say and the Thai river gunboat Makut-Rajakuman were heavily damaged, but the Inconstant and Comete managed to force their way through, sailed up the Chao Phrya and anchored opposite the French Legation in Bangkok.
	www.pattayatrader.com /thai_history.htm (588 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The first Oahu (PR-6), a Yangtze River gunboat, was laid down by Kiangnan Dock and Engineering works, Shanghai, China, 18 December 1926; launched as PG-46 26 November 1927; sponsored by Mrs.
		Following the sinking of sister gunboat Panay off Nanking by Japanese planes 12 December 1937, Oahu picked up the survivors and carried them to Shanghai, returning to the scene of the incident to conduct salvage operations.
		As the Japaneses campaign in China grew, the gunboat operated only on the lower river as far as Wuhu and Hankow, in addition serving as station ship and radio relay vessel for American officials at the temporary U.S. embassy at Nanking.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/patrol/pr6.htm (472 words)

	USS Tutuila (PG-4)
		Assigned to the Yangtze Patrol (YangPat) and redesignated a river gunboat (PR-4) on 16 June 1928, Tutuila cruised on shakedown up the Yangtze River from Shanghai to I'Chang, where she joined sister ship Guam (PR-3) in mid-July.
		Convoying river steamers through the upper reaches of the Yangtze on her first passage through the scenic gorges, she flew the flag of Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, Jr., Commander, Yangtze Patrol (ComYangPat).
		Then, under terms of lend-lease, the United States leased the gunboat to China on 19 March 1942, her name becoming Mei Yuan which can be translated as "of American origin." The name Tutuila was struck from the United States Navy list on 26 March 1942.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/5047/PR4_Tutuila.html (941 words)

	Ships and Boats for Colonial-era Gaming
		Below, are photos of some vessels which have plied Ouargi rivers and coasts.
		Usually a gunboat is played as a one-gun battery, though it may also have riflemen and perhaps a gatling-style machine gun.
		The ironclad can be played as having one or two naval guns which have no range limits--they can shoot to any point on the table that is not blocked by scenery, all shots computed as if at close range.
	www.zeitcom.com /majgen/50ship.html (844 words)

	The China Sailor
		His best-selling novel was set in the decade before, but Richard McKenna’s later gunboat experience nonetheless qualified him to write about the Navy life on the Yangtze River.
		On June 10 1939, McKenna reported on board the USS Luzon a gunboat on the Yangtze River.
		While serving as a “river rat,” he absorbed the sea stories of his shipmates about the years of unrest that marked the 1920s.
	www.mtnhomesd.org /Richard_McKenna/china_sailor.htm (1077 words)

	The Melik Society \| Gunboats
		The river and the railway which was to be constructed across the Nubian Desert were the principle supply routes from Egypt for an army which.
		Ships of the gunboat Flotilla were crucial to the success of the whole enterprise.
		The Gunboat flotilla was mainly commanded by officers of the Royal Navy, including Lieutenant David Beatty, later famous as Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty.
	www.melik.org.uk /gunboats.htm (527 words)

	CSS Neuse
		The bluffs on the Neuse overlooking White Hall, remembered Colonel Pool, "were crowded with piles of crude rosin, and barrels of spirits of turpentine." To keep Foster's troops from crossing the river here, the Confederates gathered these combustibles onto the bridge and set them ablaze, just as the enemy was arriving on the opposite bank.
		Foster's forces, "in order to cast a heavy reflection of light on the enemy," seized materials on the south side of the river intended for use in construction of the vessel and put them to the torch.
		The vessel was a small one, flat bottomed, intended for fast river navigation [and] designed for one or two guns." On the morning of December 16, the fight continued at White Hall and the Neuse was struck many times by the exchange of shot and shell.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /_uncataloged/cssalabama/cssneuse.htm (6228 words)

	River Gunboat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It is a gaming interpretation of the Nile gunboat Safieh, converted from a small sidewheel river steamer, which participated in Wolesley's unsuccessful expedition to relieve Gordon at Khartoum, 1884-85.
		These engravings are reproduced in Khartoum 1885 - General Gordon's Last Stand, by Donald Featherstone, Osprey Books, 1993.
		The Major General strongly recommends this book for anyone interested in the Nile gunboats or the Khartoum Relief Expedition.
	www.zeitcom.com /majgen/53gunbt.html (186 words)

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