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River GunboatA 'river gunboat is a type of gunboat adapted for river operations. River gunboats required shallow draft for river navigation. They would be armed with relatively small caliber cannons, or a mix of cannons and machine guns. If they carried more than one cannon, one might be a howitzer, for shore bombardment. The USS San Pablo described in Richard McKenna's The Sand Pebbles is a an example of this class of vessel, serving on the US Navy's Yangtze Patrol. China River Gunboats Various European powers, the USA, and Japan, maintained flotillas of these shallow draft gunboats patrolling Chinese Rivers. These gunboats were enforcing those powers treaty rights under the unequal treaties that China had started to sign following her defeat during the first Opium War with Britain. Foreign powers had coerced concessions from China, like Extraterritoriality for their citizens in China. And the gunboats policed these rights. Related External links
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