Gunboats
From a Naval Assessment:
Read carefully Lieutenant and you might make something of yourself....
U.S.S. Elcano
"Wanhsien showed that the present type of gunboat used in China is becoming obsolete. A little tin gunboat on a narrow river is no match in a fight with a Chinese army equipped with modern heavy artillery. Unless the foreigners build heavier and better protected gunboats, a difficult thing to do in view of the shallowness of the rivers - the Chinese are shortly [if they are not ready now] going to drive the gunboats off the river."
China Weekly Review, November 13, 1926. Quoted in Kemp Tolley, Yangtze Patrol The U.S. Navy in China (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1971) page 144
Drilling aboard the U.S.S. Elcano