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

 Organization

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

William H. Sellers papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-230
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1837 - 1931

Thomas Edison letter to Joseph B. Murdock

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSC31_Edison_1887
Dates: 1887 Aug 23

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