ASROC started development as the Rocket Assisted Torpedo ( RAT ) program by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake in the early 1950 to develop as surface warship ASW weapon counter to the new post-WWII submarines which ran quieter, at much higher speed and could attack from much longer range with high speed homing torpedoes.

The British later established a Torpedo Experimental Establishment at HMS Vernon and a production facility at the Royal Naval Torpedo Factory, Greenock in 1910.

** John C. Waldron, United States Naval aviator and commander of Torpedo Squadron 8, killed at the Battle of Midway ( b. 1900 )

A civilian chemist working at the U. S. Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island, he noticed that when a block of explosive guncotton with the manufacturer's name stamped into it was detonated next to a metal plate, the lettering was cut into the plate.

He later served in Franklin, Richmond, and Guard of the Mediterranean Squadron ; as well as in Wachusett and at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island.

Facilities constructed on the island included the Torpedo Control Officers School of the Portland Naval Training Center, a navy supply pier with a naval fuel annex often cited as a source of contamination for both the island's marsh and Casco Bay, and the Casco Bay Naval Auxiliary Air Facility ( NAAF ) seaplane base operated as part of Naval Air Station Brunswick from 14 May 1943 to 15 December 1946.

** Sea of Shadows ( formerly published as Torpedo ) — Anti-submarine warfare technology, Naval warfare, Torpedo technology

* Noel, Gerard et al., The Gun, Ram and Torpedo, Manoeuvres and tactics of a Naval Battle of the Present Day, 2nd Edition, pub.

In 1869 the U. S. Naval Torpedo Station was founded in Newport on Goat Island, the site of a military fort since 1703.

After midshipman service in the cruisers and, and battleships and, he attended Naval Torpedo and Gunnery Schools from 1913-1914.

He was subsequently an instructor at the Naval Torpedo School and held several other highly-visible posts.

Promoted to the rank of Commander in 1910, Pratt was an instructor at the Naval War College in 1911 – 1913 and spent the next two years in the Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla, much of that as Commanding Officer of its flagship, the scout cruiser Birmingham.

Charles E. Munroe of the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, Rhode Island patented a formulation of guncotton colloided with nitrobenzene, called Indurite, in 1891.

In 1886 he joined the Naval Torpedo Station and War College at Newport, Rhode Island as a chemist, where he discovered the Munroe effect, the basis for explosive shaped charges.

* January-The Irish Naval Service acquires the first of its six Motor Torpedo Boats, M1.

In September 1894, Bernadou began three years of service at the Naval Torpedo Station located at Newport, Rhode Island, where he continued the work of Charles Munroe developing a satisfactory smokeless powder for naval artillery.

Ward was occupied with various professional duties at the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, Rhode Island, and the New York Navy Yard through 1885.

Tasmania had also a small Torpedo Corps, while Western Australia ’ s only naval defences included the Fremantle Naval Artillery.

After serving the two years of sea duty then required by law before commissioning in the armored cruiser and the torpedo boat Fitch became as ensign on February 13, 1908 and served afloat in and before receiving instruction in torpedoes at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I., in the school conducted on board the old cruiser.

In the years preceding World War I, Hart filled a variety of sea and shore duty billets: as a junior officer in battleships, torpedo boats, and submarines ; as an instructor at the Naval Academy ; as aide to an Assistant Secretary of the Navy ; and as commander of the Pacific Torpedo Flotilla.

The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California on Friday, 5 May 1972.

On Monday, 8 May 1972, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar.

LZ 129 Hindenburg | Hindenburg at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, 1936

One of the recent attractions is the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, a museum ship now moored at the former Naval Air Station as the USS Hornet Museum.

Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.

He may have been one of three hijackers that listed the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida as their permanent address on drivers ' licenses, though other sources claim he listed the Delray condominium.

On 15 June Voris led a trio of Grumman F6F-5 Hellcats, specially modified to reduce weight and painted sea blue with gold leaf trim, through their inaugural 15-minute-long performance at their Florida home base, Naval Air Station Jacksonville.

Between 2 and 4 September 2011 on labor day weekend, the Blue Angels flew for the first time with a 50 – 50 blend of conventional JP-5 jet fuel and a camelina-based biofuel at Naval Air Station Patuxent River airshow at Patuxent River, Maryland.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

In the early 1960s, the UK was withdrawing its military presence from the Indian Ocean area, not including the base at RAF Gan to the north of Diego Garcia in the Maldives ( which remained open until 1976 ), and agreed to permit the US to establish a Naval Communication Station on one of its island territories there.

In March 1971, US Naval construction battalions ( Seabees ) arrived on Diego Garcia to begin the construction of the Communications Station and an airfield.

By 1973, construction of the Naval Communications Station ( NAVCOMMSTA ) was completed.

In the early 1970s, setbacks to US military capabilities in the region including the fall of Saigon, victory of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the closure of the Peshawar Air Station listening post in Pakistan and Kagnew Station in Ethiopia, the Mayaguez incident, and the build-up of Soviet Naval presence in Aden and a Soviet Air Base at Berbera, Somalia, caused the US to request, and the UK to approve, permission to build a fleet anchorage and enlarged airfield on Diego Garcia, and the Seabees doubled the number of workers constructing these facilities.

* Naval Computer And Telecommunications Station Far East Detachment Diego Garcia

Overseas territories include also the " Pedro Vicente Maldonado " Naval Biological Research Station in the Antarctic.

United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay ( also called Gitmo or GTMO ) is located on of land and water at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba which the United States leased for use as a coaling ( fueling ) station following the Cuban-American Treaty of 1903.

* Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic Detachment Guantanamo Bay

This area became the location of U. S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, which covers about and is sometimes abbreviated as " GTMO " or " Gitmo ".

Guantánamo Bay physically divides the Naval Station into sections.

Leeward Point of the Naval Station is the site of the active airfield.

Windward Point contains most of the activities on the Naval Station.