RIAMCO

Manuscript Items

Formal title:: Manuscript Items
Extent:: 38.5 linear feet (36 archival boxes, 7 half archival boxes, 14 oversize boxes, 6 oversize folders)
Date range:: 1783-2013 and undated
Abstract:: This collection consists of single manuscripts items from past NWC presidents, faculty, and staff, as well as other other naval officers and military service members from Rhode Island and the surrounding area. These items include correspondence, journals, reports, certificates, commissions, scrapbooks, and other ephemera that relate to the history of the U.S. Naval War College, the history of navies in the Narragansett Bay region, and the history of naval warfare and strategy.
Repository:: Naval War College (U.S.). Naval Historical Collection
Collection call no:: MSC-364
Inventory:

File	Box 16 Folder 24	Rhode Island Naval Battalion, Bristol, RI letter (MSI 296) Letter copy book of the RINB, 1904-1906 containing information on the conduct of business of the battalion, including assignments, drills, transfers, enlistment, resignations, discharges, medals and drill reports	1904-1906
File	Box 17 Folder 30-31	Torpedo boats, Bristol, RI article (MSI 329) Typescript copy of "The Torpedo Boats of Bristol, RI.," by Richard V. Simpson, 1993.This article treats the history of the torpedo boats built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for the U.S. Navy, ca.1877-1900. Contents include information on boat types, including the steel torpedo boats, the war with Spain and torpedo boats during that war. Appendices include information on torpedo boat practice in Narragansett Bay, speed records of U.S. torpedo boats, Herreshoff's other Navy boats, Rhode Island and the war with Spain	1993

Formal title:: Early records of the U.S. Naval War College
Extent:: 2.09 linear feet
Date range:: 1883-1919 1895-1911
Abstract:: Correspondence, memoranda, lists, contracts, inventories, military and naval orders, and plans regarding the early administration and curriculum of the Naval War College, new building construction, and items relating to the establishment of a naval coaling station in Narraganset Bay. Also included are journals and letterpress copybooks kept by past NWC presidents Charles Stockton and French Chadwick.
Repository:: Naval War College (U.S.). Naval Historical Collection
Collection call no:: RG-01

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