Guns on the Western waters: the story of river gunboats in the Civil War.
These would best be described as river gunboats.
Another call for tenders will soon be going out for the supply of steel-hulled river gunboats.
The advance was supposed to be supported by river gunboats, however two things prevented the gun boats from becoming a factor in the battle.
The 32-pounders were still useful in providing primary or secondary armament to smaller ships and river gunboats.
This type of vessel overlaps with the river gunboat.
He commands a fleet of four hundred men, two river gunboats and three oceangoing patrol crafts.
The Dragonfly class was a class of river gunboats.
In 1862, he was transferred to the western theater to superintend the arming of river gunboats.
The seventh and final sea-going craft to bear the name was a river gunboat, commissioned in 1934.
