Former Torpedo Test Facility
USA /
Rhode Island /
Middletown /
World
/ USA
/ Rhode Island
/ Middletown
World / United States / Rhode Island
military, abandoned / shut down
Used by the US Navy from the 1920's through 1987 as a torpedo storage, electroplating, degreasing and evaluation facility, the Gould Island Facility was deactivated with the rest of Naval Station Newport and has seen all its above-ground buildings razed.
The large building at the end of the pier was key to the operation. It is described in the following article:
diodon349.com/Torpedoman/TM_Stuff/naval_torpedo_station...
The large building at the end of the pier was key to the operation. It is described in the following article:
diodon349.com/Torpedoman/TM_Stuff/naval_torpedo_station...
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°32'15"N 71°20'40"W
- Naval Station Newport 1.1 km
- NUWC - Naval Undersea Warfare Center 1.7 km
- Coaster's Harbor Island - US Naval War College 2.8 km
- Quonset Point Airport 11 km
- The home of the "Quonset hut" 12 km
- Camp Fogarty, US Army National guard 16 km
- Ninigret Park, Naval Auxiliary Air Station Charlestown 33 km
- Joint Base Cape Cod (Massachusetts Military Reservation) 68 km
- Otis Air National Guard Base (FMH/KFMH) 68 km
- Cape Cod Air Force Station 71 km
- Wanumetonomy Golf & Country Club 3.5 km
- Greene Lane Navy Housing 4.3 km
- Simmons Organic Farm and Petting Zoo 4.4 km
- Melville, Rhode Island 4.5 km
- Prescott Point 4.8 km
- Newport State Airport - Newport Air Park 5.3 km
- Newport East, Rhode Island 5.3 km
- Cornell Farm - Bay View Estates 5.8 km
- Raytheon 6.7 km
- Newport County, Rhode Island 7.3 km