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The Torpedo Station's mission was to develop torpedoes, torpedo equipment, explosives, and electrical equipment. Through experiments conducted there, the torpedo evolved from the immobile explosive mine of the Civil War period to the efficient and highly mobile weapon of today. The Station worked on other ordnance projects, including an impractical dynamite-throwing gun, projectile explosives such as dynamite and nitroglycerine, and gun cotton. The Navy's first smokeless gunpowder was also manufactured there. The first experiments in shipboard electricity were conducted at the Torpedo Station in the late 1880s. 1

In 1869 Rose Island was acquired for the storage of explosives and for experimental firings. 1

In 1887 the machine shop was wired to conform with a plan for illuminating ships with electric lights. 1

In May of 1900 Lieutenant John B Blish, the Navy's principal elecrical expert, is in Newport setting up a experimental wireless telegraph station.


Providence Journal May 24, 1900




Providence Journal May 27, 1900

Annual Reports of the Navy Department

Early Naval Radio Installations and Problems

In 1902 a wireless antenna mast 180 feet high was erected at the Station to allow tests and evaluations of wireless radio communications. 1


The Montgomery Advertiser
August 30, 1902


Providence Journal August 22, 1902


Providence Journal October 6, 1902


Providence Journal October 24, 1902


Providence Journal November 3, 1902

At the end of 1902 the 180 foot mast was buckeled by high winds


Providence Journal December 9, 1902

Eventually the 148 foot top section of the mast came to the ground due to the weight of the snow.


Providence Journal December 27, 1902

It is decided not to replace the mast because new wireless apparatus was seheduled to be installed


Providence Journal January 26, 1903

Between the end of July and mid September 1903 the new wireless apparatus is set up and becomes opperational.


Providence Providence Journal July 29, 1903


Providence Journal August 1, 1903


Providence Journal September 16, 1903


Providence Journal
September 18, 1903


The Morning Journal Courier
September 19, 1903


Providence Journal September 23, 1903


Providence Journal September 23, 1903

The USS Topeka left the West Indies on March 30th, 1904 and returned to the United States upon her arrival at Charleston on the 5th. On 15 May, the warship reported for duty at Newport, Rhode Island, and, for the next four months, participated in wireless telegraphy experiments conducted off the New England coast.


USS Topeka


Providence Journal June 12, 1904


Providence Journal June 2, 1905

In 1905, the first use of wireless in the rescue of an American ship happened and the "HELP" (SOS had not been established as of yet) message was received at the Torpedo Wireless Station.


Naval Training Station
1905 Station Antenna
From Newport Firsts: A Hundred Claims to Fame (RI)
By Brian M. Stinson


Providence Journal
October 7, 1905


Providence Journal October 13, 1905


Providence Journal
November 8, 1905




Providence Journal
January 10, 1906




Providence Journal
April 27, 1906



In April of 1906 a distance record was broken by the station when it received a message from 1000 miles away from the Battleship Maryland.


Providence Journal April 21, 1906

Also in 1906, a young man with a homemade wireless set, modeled after Massie equipment, disrupted the powerful US Navy wirless statioon in Newport. The wireless apparatus was set up in a hen house!


Providence Journal April 21, 1906


Providence Journal
February 6, 1907


A Handbook of
Wireless Telegraph
its Theory and Parctice
James Erskine-Murray, 1907


Providence Journal
October 16, 1908


Providence Journal
November 3, 1908


Providence Journal November 8, 1908


Providence Journal
February 18, 1909


Providence Journal
April 15, 1909


Pawtucket Times June 23, 1909


Providence Journal
December 29, 1909


Providence Journal
January 11, 1910


Woonsocket Call January 15, 1910


Providence Journal January 16, 1910


Providence Journal January 16, 1910


Providence Journal January 27, 1910


Pawtucket Times
May 26, 1910


Providence Journal
October 14, 1910


Providence Journal
October 18, 1910


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Torpedo Station 1910


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Newport Torpedo Station 1910



Providence Providence Journal December 9, 1910


Providence Journal
December 11, 1910



Providence Journal
October 12, 1911




Bristol Phoenix
November 1, 1912




Electrician and Mechanic, 1912




Torpedo Station 1912



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Torpedo Station 1912


In 1912 the distance record was broken once sgain by the station when it received a message from California, Mare Island Station that was sent to Key West Florida.


Telephone and Telegraph Age
January 1 1912




Providence Journal
January 19, 1912




Providence Journal March 1, 1912



Woonsocket Call April 13, 1912



Providence Journal April 20, 1912



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Providence Journal January 12, 1913



Pawtucket Times March 5, 1913



Pawtucket Times August 16, 1913



Providence Journal September 24, 1913



Pawtucket Times September 25, 1913



Popular Eectricity September, 1913



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Providence Journal April 26, 1914




Woonsocket Call October 6, 1917



Woonsocket Call November 14, 1918



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1914 Waterfront Torpedo Station Newport RI



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Providence Journal February 16, 1916



Pawtucket Times February 21, 1916



Pawtucket Times November 13, 1916



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1917 WW1 US Navy Torpedo Station Newport



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1918 Newport RI Torpedo Station



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1918 Naval Torpedo Station



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1918 Torpedo Station US Naval Training



Naval Training Station
Newport RI Learning Wireless Telegraphers
Date Unknown



In 1919, Gould Island was purchased and placed under the Station's jurisdiction. 1


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Providence Journal
March 2, 1919



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Pawtucket Times
February 3, 1919



Bristol Phoenix
February 6, 1920



Radio October 1922



Radio World March, 1923



Popular Radio June, 1924



Pawtucket Times June 27, 1924





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Pawtucket Times December 23, 1927





Woonsocket Call November 18, 1929


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