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 maintained by Lt. Comdr. Charles O'Neill while receiving instruction on torpedoes at the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, R.I. In this volume, O'Neill summarized the weekly instructions and created diagrams and drawings to illustrate parts of the lessons.

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 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.

This collection consists of one Machinist's Shop Practice handbook for the Apprentice School at the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, RI from 1942.

The handbook describes safety precautions and how to manage machinery used to make weapons during World War II. On the first page is the name "Charles Salts," signed in pen and it is assumed that this book belonged to him.

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.

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.