Box 1
Contains 8 Results:
Letters received , 1893 Feb 14-1896 Oct 7 and undated
Letters received from Ridgely Hunt, M.N. Alexander, et. al., regarding change of orders, storage of dynamite, a character reference and personal matters.
Letters received, 1897 Feb 6-Oct 8
Letters received from from Caspar F. Goodrich, William G. Cutler, Richard Danforth, H.C. Poundstone, and Lt. Harry McCrea et. al, regarding borrowing a book on Cellulose, assignment of personnel to the Torpedo Station, the use of the Obry gear in torpedoes, and advice re: Torpedo No. 26.
Letters received, 1898 May 9-Dec 24
Letters received from from Lt. K. Niles, W.A. Marshall, Philip R. Alger, Charles H. Allen, Lucian Sharpe Jr., Spencer Wood, Richardson Clover, T.M. Leavitt, et. al., regarding fuel oil tests, kneading machine contract for smokeless powder, assignment to Torpedo Station, diving apparatus at the station, loan of guns and ammunition, results of firing, decommissioning of USS Dupont and USS Porter, assignment of DuPont to the station, the USS Montgomery and USS DuPont, the Navy’s Personnel Bill and Marconi’s telegraph, E.W. Bliss Company and the Whitehead Torpedo.
Letters sent, 1882 Sep 12-1899 Sep 27
Letters sent to to Thomas Selfridge, E.T. Copeland and Company, Melville Bull, Philip R. Alger, Commodore O’Neil, Captain McGowan, H. C. Poundstone, Minna Irving, Holden A. Evans, and Richardson Clover, regarding trials of torpedo with Obry steering gear, the Case Engine, damage to the USS Stiletto, use of steam launches, firing tests, the firing of the Whitehead Torpedo, models of electric and percussion primers, storm damage to the USS Essex, references for Torpedo Station personnel, foreign torpedoes, health of LT. Marshall, return of photographs of diving operations, shipping of fifty electric igniters to the Frankfort Arsenal, and return of confidential data on foreign torpedo boats.
Four Drawings of Scale of Yard, undated
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.
Letters received, 1899 Jan 25-Sep 9
Letters received from Secretary of the Navy John D. Long, Holden A. Evans, Philip R. Alger, Washington Irving Chambers, R.D. Tindale, regarding naval orders, letter of recommendation, electric primers, signal shapes for torpedo practice, receipt of torpedo books, torpedo experiments, and Mark III short torpedo.
Thomas C. McLean correspondence
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.
Letters sent, undated
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.