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Return to Naval Historical Center homepageD. Bentley
(Gbt)
D. Bentley, an aged craft, was reputedly outfitted as a gunboat at Port Hudson in February 1863 to assist Frank Webb in a proposed attack on USS Conestoga and other Union ships near the mouth of the Red River.