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

 Organization

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

U.S. Naval Base, Newport, RI blueprints

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-252
Content Description

Maps, sketches, blueprints, and of buildings and facilities at various Newport Naval commands.

Dates: 1917 - 1957

U.S. Naval Torpedo Station (Newport, RI) records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSC-227
Dates: 1905-1914, 1906-1924, 1910-1951, and 1919-1953

Walter N. Hill lecture, circa 1869-1881

 File — Box 9, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 081
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: circa 1869-1881

William Sheffield oral history transcription, 2004

 Item
Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 326
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2004