*One of our 2025 Ellen and Charles Steinmetz Endowment Grant recipients, Carolyn Kennedy, provides us with an update:* **Project Overview** The Philadelphia Gunboat Research Initiative (PGRI) is a multi-institutional archaeological project investigating the remains and wider context of the American gunboat Philadelphia, sunk during the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain on October 11, 1776. This pivotal Revolutionary War engagement delayed British advances from Canada and was the earliest large-scale naval battles fought by the Continental forces. The gunboat Philadelphia was raised in 1935 by Col. Lorenzo Hagglund and ultimately transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, where it is now a centerpiece of the National Museum of American History.…