United States Naval Torpedo Station (Newport, R.I.)
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Thomas Edison letter to Joseph B. Murdock
U.S. Naval Base, Newport, RI blueprints
Maps, sketches, blueprints, and of buildings and facilities at various Newport Naval commands.
U.S. Naval Torpedo Station (Newport, RI) records
Walter N. Hill lecture, circa 1869-1881
Lecture on explosives including such topics as gunpowder, gun cotton, nitro-glycerin, given by Hill at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, RI.
William Sheffield oral history transcription, 2004
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.