US Navy ships will shoot Iranian gunboats that get too close “out of the water,” President Donald Trump said on Wednesday after 11 vessels from Iran's elite fighting force came dangerously ...

As a Civil War historian who has been researching the Union’s river navy for seven years ... a steamer carrying US$40,000 worth of Union supplies. Hungry Confederates swarmed aboard to find ...

Crew members of the Philippine Navy's fast attack interdictor craft-missile (FAIC-M) boats BRP Tomas Campo (PG-908) and the ...

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Louis businessman James B. Eads and awarded him a contract to build and equip for the navy seven gunboats in 63 days. Known as the city-class ironclads, they were the St. Louis, Cairo, Carondelet ...

Five Iranian gunboats failed in ... navigation to be safe." The US Defense Department said it "was aware" of the reports and referred the matter to the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy did not ...

Out of the 1926 political and military turmoil in China, producer-director Robert Wise has created a sensitive, personal drama, set against a background of old style US Navy gunboat diplomacy.