Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Navy Yards and Naval Stations, United States

NAVY YARDS AND NAVAL STATIONS, UNITED STATES, are located at Portsmouth, N. H., Boston, Mass., Newport, R. I., New London, Conn., Brooklyn, N. Y., Philadelphia, Pa., Norfolk, Va., Charleston, S. C, Key West, Fla., Pensacola, Fla., New Orleans, La., Panama Canal Zone, San Diego, Cal., San Francisco, Cal., Mare Island, Cal., Bremerton, Wash., Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Cavite and Olongapo, Philippine Islands, and Guantanamo, Cuba.

The largest and most important of these stations are those at New York and Norfolk. At Newport is the Torpedo Station, where Torpedoes are manufactured and tested and new developments tried out. The station at New London is a base and training school for submarines and that at Pensacola a base and training school for aviation. Ship-building is carried on on a large scale at Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Mare Island, and on a small scale at Portsmouth, N. H. Elaborate and well-equipped establishments for the training of recruits are maintained at Newport, Lake Forrest, (Great Lakes Training Station), and San Francisco. The educational facilities at these and other shore stations, as well as on shipboard, are remarkably complete and justify the boast of the Navy that it offers technical courses in a wide diversity of branches equal, if not superior, from a practical point of view, to those offered by any university in the country.