[ARC5] Torpedos....

[Christopher Bowne]

Wasn't there also perhaps an earlier torpedo factory on the DC side of the Potomac at the Navy Yard?




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 From: Roy Morgan <k1lky at earthlink.net>
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On Jul 2, 2013, at 5:22 PM, gordon white <gewhite at crosslink.net> wrote:

> There was at one time a torpedo factory on the Potomac waterfront in Alexandria, VA

I posted a message about it, but it was under the Subject: PT-658

Here it is:

On Jul 2, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:

> According to MY reading, the torpedo fiasco was a complete scandal. 

It may help people to know that "The Torpedo Factory" in Alexandria Virginia, not far from the Navy Yard, was turned into an artists workspace and gallery.  There is a modest display of the early torpedoes there.

Web site:  http://torpedofactory.org/

From their History page:

"No kidding! The Torpedo Factory Art Center was an actual torpedo factory. It's not just a catchy name for a building bursting with art studios.
It all began the day after Armistice Day, November 12, 1918, which was the anniversary of the official end of World War I. Ironically, on that day the U.S. Navy began construction on the original building, which became the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station. When fully operational,                                                       it was responsible for the manufacture and maintenance of torpedoes for the next five years. Work stopped and the facility served as a munitions storage area until World War II. Production on the Mark XIV, a submarine borne torpedo, and the Mark III aircraft torpedo then resumed at an intense rate; in fact, men and women worked around the clock and were given only two days off a year. Gradually as space was needed, ten additional buildings were added to the complex.

The green torpedo currently displayed in the main hall was actually made here in 1945. This Mark XIV torpedo is painted bright green so that the Navy could find it in the water when it was tested. Its log book, in the exhibit case, tells its history, and lists the submarines on which it traveled."

Roy
Retired Anti Submarine Helo Pilot
(we carried the Mark 58)

Roy Morgan
k1lky at earthlink.net
K1LKY Since 1958 - Keep 'em Glowing!



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