United States Naval Torpedo Station (Newport, R.I.)

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.

Notebook of summaries of instruction in torpedoes, diagrams and drawings kept while at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I.

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.

Notes for a course on electricity, given at the Naval Torpedo Station.

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.

Lecture on explosives including such topics as gunpowder, gun cotton, nitro-glycerin, given by Hill at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, RI.

Sheffield, William, 1919-. Joined the Navy, 1941; Assigned to Communications Department, Washington, D.C.; Local Defense School; Subchaser Training Center, Miami, Fla.; Assigned to SC-1468, Miami; Duty in subchaser in the Caribbean; Quonset Point NAS, Anti-Submarine Development unit; Subchaser Training School; Fire Fighting School; Damage Control School; Executive Officer, US.S William M. Hobby; Discharged from the Navy, 1945; Naval Reserves, 1945-1954; Employment, Brown and Sharpe and plastics industry; Comments on the significance of the Navy for his life.