The two engines were taken apart, cleaned and reassembled ... The gunboat and its artifacts can now be seen at the USS Cairo Museum. The "city class" gunboats were designed by Samuel M. Pook and built ...

1862 - Confederate torpedo (mine) sinks USS Cairo in Yazoo River. 1937 - Japanese aircraft sink USS Panay in Yangtze River near Nanking, China. 1941 - Naval Air Transport Service is established ...

1862 - Confederate torpedo (mine) sinks USS Cairo in Yazoo River. 1937 - Japanese aircraft sink USS Panay in Yangtze River near Nanking, China. 1941 - Naval Air Transport Service is established ...