Word: gunboat
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...Gopher, obsolete gunboat, and training ship of the Ninth Naval District, proceeding from Toledo up through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, sank in a northwest gale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. No lives were lost. She was a wooden ship, built in 1871, carrying three 3-pounders...
American blue-jackets from a gunboat anchored nearby, who arrested 15 soldiers, but not before they had injured the captain of the vessel and three women, including the wife and daughter of the Dollar line agent...
Steamers arriving at IChang on the Yang-tsze Kiang River declare that the American steamer Alice Dollar and a British vessel under convoy of the U. S. gunboat Monocacy were fired upon at Chung-King. The Monocacy returned the fire, not without effect...
...Yankton won her real fame as a United States gunboat. At the beginning of the Spanish-American War the Government bought her, and she received her baptism of fire from the Spanish batteries in Cuba. After the war she used to escort the fleet southward on its annual maneuvers or chase about protecting our interests in the revolution-burdened countries of South America. The Yankton led the way as guide boat when Admiral Evans took our fleet upon its famous cruise around the world. Her last official service was as a despatch boat in the World...
Died. Rear Admiral William S. Cowles, 76, U. S. N., retired, at Farmington, Conn., where he was born. He served in the navy for 45 years prior to his retirement in 1908, commanded the gunboat, Topeka in the Spanish American War, was naval aide to McKinley, was in command of the Missouri when it had a collision with the Illinois and when thirty-three men were killed in an explosion (he was cleared of responsibility in both cases) and was an official representative at the coronation of George V. He was divorced from his first wife in 1880 and fifteen...