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Welcome to our new web page on gun boats!
The information and lists of gun boats comes from a variety of sources ranging from Jane's Fighting Ships to official US Naval (Department of the Navy) documents, materials from sailors and donors to our collection.
We wish to obtain material including but not limited to narratives regarding purpose of these types of ships, designs, assignement and battles. We are interested in acquiring deck logs, cruise books, roster-muster rolls, photos, citations and technical operation and training materials for as many US gun boats as possible.
We are also looking for volunteers to help us write these narratives and to transribe roster muster rolls so that we can get this material into our searchable database.
You can make donations and contact us to assist-volunteer or answer questions. Help us Save Military History One Sailor at a Time and the history of the US gun boat.
Notation-Attention: Some of the text documents/pages on this website are copies/scans presented in pdf format; others have been transcribed from official unit military documents without corrections. Some material was difficult to read and transcribe, sometimes this is noted in the transcription. Some originals may have been missing sections or pages. Spelling was not corrected. Documents are not meant to be a complete record, they are only what has been reasonbly-readable. In some cases document formatting-layout may have been altered to enable better viewing on a web page with multiple devices.
