The crews of the tinclads and the other gunboats waged a deadly game of whack ... killed one sailor from the USS Cairo and nearly captured another, revenge was swift. Union sailor George Yost ...
USS Port Royal is the second U.S. Navy ship named ... The first Port Royal was a wooden, sidewheel gunboat commissioned in 1862. The gunboat Port Royal was decommissioned in 1866.
On December 12, 1937, the US Navy river gunboat USS Panay and three Standard Oil Company tankers were evacuating American citizens trapped by Japan’s invasion of Nanjing when they were targeted ...