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The Eastland was later raised, repaired, sold to the Illinois Naval Reserve and converted to a gunboat, which served as a training vessel on the Great Lakes during the two World Wars, as the USS Wilmette.
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Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025
On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
Platoon after platoon scuffed down to the shoreline to clamber aboard gunboats, longboats, and six-oared, flat-bottomed bateaux.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
The gunboat was built quickly using iron nails and fasteners, which later oxidized in the water.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2025
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Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025
On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
Platoon after platoon scuffed down to the shoreline to clamber aboard gunboats, longboats, and six-oared, flat-bottomed bateaux.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
The gunboat was built quickly using iron nails and fasteners, which later oxidized in the water.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2025
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“Gunboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gunboat. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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gunboat
noun
gun·boat
ˈgən-ˌbōt 
: a small lightly armed ship for use in shallow waters
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