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The Navy in Newport

The Navy in Newport

Lionel Wyld

Paperback

Series: Images of America

Technology & EngineeringNaval HistoryRegional: New England

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0738535508
ISBN13: 9780738535500
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: Aug 1 1997
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.96 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The visual history of the navy in Newport from mercantile trade to world war and the Naval War College.

Known throughout the world as The City by the Sea, Newport, Rhode Island, has a long history of maritime activity. Since the Colonial period, Newport has been recognized as both an important seaport for the mercantile trade and a harbor of inestimable value for naval vessels. I n 1869, the U. S. Navy opened its pioneer site in the region, the Naval Torpedo station on Goat Island in Newport harbor. The Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island and the Naval Training Station soon followed. The navy's presence expanded through two world wars; and in the 1940s the U. S. Naval Operating Base with headquarters in Newport, included extensive naval facilities on both sides of Narragansett Bay. Today, Newport remains an integral site of naval training, research, and development. The prestigious Naval War College, the Naval Education and Training Center, and other navy command schools, in addition to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center with its Division Newport, have kept this branch of the armed services a leading employer in Rhode Island and southeastern New England.

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