United States Naval Torpedo Station (Newport, R.I.)
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Belknap letterbook, 1885-1896
Letterbook kept during USNA assignments, 1885-1888, 1894-1896, on USS Kearsarge, 1888-1891, and on assignment at U.S. Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, RI, 1888.
Charles O'Neill notebook, 1876 Jun-1876 Sep
Notebook of summaries of instruction in torpedoes, diagrams and drawings kept while at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I.
Early records of the U.S. Naval War College
Correspondence, memoranda, lists, contracts, inventories, military and naval orders, and plans regarding the early administration and curriculum of the Naval War College, new building construction, and items relating to the establishment of a naval coaling station in Narraganset Bay. Also included are journals and letterpress copybooks kept by past NWC presidents Charles Stockton and French Chadwick.
Letters sent, undated
Letters sent by A.H. Whittlesey, C.W. Owston, F. Ruffin and U.S. Naval Regulation Circular No. 10 from Secretary of the Navy John D. Long. Letters regarding the Schiess Cutter, visit to Brown & Sharpe, return of ten barrels of oil, ordering a carpet, and the request for a boatswain at the Torpedo Station is denied.
Lyman G. Spalding notebook, 1881
Notes for a course on electricity, given at the Naval Torpedo Station.
Thomas C. McLean correspondence
Papers: Correspondence, letters sent and received regarding Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, RI, 1882-1898, including a letter to William McCarty Little; Draft of letter, n.d; Trial sheet, Whitehead Torpedo, No. 71. n.d; Three diagrams of scale of yards, n.d. 1882-1898.
Naval Torpedo Station booklet, 1942 Apr
Booklet entitled "Instructions for Emergency Fire Crew," Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I., Personnel Division, Training Section. The booklet was geared to industrial workers, not the fire fighting units.
Naval Torpedo Station records
Central Files Records, including correspondence and subject collections on types of torpedoes, 1869-1885; Central Files Records, including correspondence, contracts, reprints, 1886-1925, 1942-1959; Miscellaneous material such as blueprints, material stock cards, torpedo data books and various test data. Newport, RI. Photographs, ca. 1915; Training manuals, 1937–1939, Newport, RI.
William H. Sellers papers
Books and manuals on naval topics, 1837-1918; correspondence, including letterbook, 1904-1915 and letters sent and received, 1902-1906, 1922-1925, 1930-1931, and 1936; Pamphlets and newspapers on naval topics, 1908-1945; photographs of ships and crew 1893-1918; Miscellany, including certificates, postcards, maps and scrapbook, 1895-1920, documenting Seller's career in the Navy as Chief Yeoman, 1887-1922.Two scrapbooks of personal and official papers; pamphlets and printed ephemera.
