In The Navy
In the Navy, the term "gunship" originally appeared in the mid-19th century as a less-common synonym for gunboat and referred to the heavily armed Ironclad steamships used during the American Civil War.
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“People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)