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Letter from Sweet-Orr &, Co. regarding their product Womanalls, 1918 Apr 26 (6 of 6)
No full textWomanalls, overalls for women, are suggested for women working in the Torpedo Station’s primer making department.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1142/thumbnail.jp
Difficulties in establishment of Diving School, 1916 May 24 (2 of 3)
No full textMemo regarding the hindrances to establishing a Diving School at Naval Station Newport, including “suffer[ing] from official inertia and the dire lack of funding” among other obstacles.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1104/thumbnail.jp
Revised Service Torpedo Instructions, 1915 Sep 8 (6 of 25)
No full textInstructions for naval torpedo service with notes by Harold “Betty” Stark.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1080/thumbnail.jp
Mine laying plan, 1915 Feb 4 (1 of 2)
No full textMemorandum from William S. Sims, Commander, Torpedo Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet with a blueprint of mine laying plans suggested by the Fourth Division Commander.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1073/thumbnail.jp
Mahan Recommendation Letter
No full textCopy 160 West 86th St New York April 16, 1901 Sir: At the request of Michael Walsh, a Chief Machinist now serving on board the U.S.S. Leyden, and an applicant for examination for Warrant Machinist, it gives me pleasure to say that the said Walsh served under me as a machinist at the Naval War College through a considerable period; and from my experience of his efficiency and conduct during that time, I am confident that, if he pass the examinations now prescribed, he will be found entirely satisfactory as a Warrant Machinist I have given Walsh a copy of this letter Very Respectfully Your Obdt servt A.T. Mahan Captain (Retired) The Secretary of the Navyhttps://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1020/thumbnail.jp
Naval Mines and Detonators 1904 (2 of 4)
No full textCyanotypes of naval mines and the detonators used inside them.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1028/thumbnail.jp
Resuscitation From Electric Shock 1904
No full textInformational poster by Augustin H. Goelet, M.D. with instructions on how to resuscitate individuals from “apparent death from electric shock.”https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1033/thumbnail.jp
Numbering of Torpedoes, 1905 Jan 20 (2 of 2)
No full textLetter from Newton E. Mason, Chief of Bureau of Ordnance, to the Torpedo Station, describes the numbering schema for torpedoes and air compressors. It was at this time that the Bureau “decided to give all torpedoes an Ordnance Number and a Mark...so that no two torpedoes can have the same number.”https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1040/thumbnail.jp
Ready Box, 1905 Feb 2 (5 of 5)
No full textPhotograph and inventory of the contents of a Ready Box for Whitehead Torpedoes.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1045/thumbnail.jp
Schedule of Instruction for Seamen Gunners, 1905 May 11 (4 of 5)
No full textThe full curriculum for Seamen Gunners at the Naval Torpedo Station with instruction on torpedo assembly and disassembly, launching, electricity, air compressors, and diving.https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/torpedo/1056/thumbnail.jp