Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Papers, 1739-1985

Box 22, Folder 64:

PNS 1708 - Portsmouth Naval Prison – Marine Guards 1898

PNS 1709 - Spanish Galleon wooden model

PNS 1710 - Spanish Galleon wooden model

“1537 From Dover Area Employed at Navy Yard,” March 30, 1959 (Newspaper article); “Careers in Engineering.” (Recruiting brochure), n.d.; “Portsmouth Naval Shipyard” (Recruiting brochure), undated

John Bardwell’s “The Portsmouth Naval Base: A Visual History” with brief history of base. Notes on submarines: rescues losses, books, history, misc. facts.

“Navy Yard. Portsmouth?, NH,” NH As It Is, 1856; “1775-1875 Centennial History of the U.S. Navy Yard at Portsmouth, NH” by Walter E. Fentress, 1876; “Portsmouth Navy Yard 1800 – and her early Commandants/Rear Admiral John H. Brown 1947.”

“History of the U.S. Navy Yard Portsmouth, NH.” 1892, with index and register of principle officers 1815-1877; Life Buoy issued monthly for free distribution to employees of the Industrial Dept. of the Portsmouth Navy Yard.” Various articles from WWI (1918-19): “Miss Eleanor V. D. Adams, Sponsor U.S.S.-6″; “What the Navy Yard has been doing during the War”; “Women’s Work in War Time”; “Submarine S-3 Launched Practically Complete”; “Government Hotels to be Opened at Kittery Point”; “0-1 Launched”; “The Trade School”; “History U.S. Navy Yard.”

“Revival of Our Oldest Navy Yard.” Scientific American, Jan. 20, 1920; “The Portsmouth Navy Yard: Some Interesting Facts About the Atlantic Submarine Repair and Construction Base.” Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, 1922; “Navy Day, Oct. 27, 1923″; “Story of Submarine Design and Construction at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard,” 1945?; “World War I to the 40s”; “150 Years of Accomplishment at the Portsmouth Naval Base 1800-1950″; “Brief History of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard” (1700s-1940s)

“1777 October Thirty-one.” N.E. Historical and Genealogical Register, v.20. (Letter to Mr. John Langdon from John Paul Jones); “Richard defeats Serapis: Paul Jones Famous Sea Battle Established U.S. Naval Power.” Maine Sunday Telegram, Sept. 23, 1979

Plan of Wood Island, Portsmouth Harbor showing location of U.S. Quarantine Hospital, July 4, 1869; A Plate of Mr. Thomas Fernald’s Islands Tahen, Nov. 20th, 1702. (copy); Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (color); “Shipyards” from Saltonstall’s Ports of Piscataqua

Letter to Francis B. Roche from Earle G. Shettleworth, State (Maine) Historic Presentation Officer, July 12, 1977, containing proposal nomination; “Established in Kittery, Nation’s First Navy Yard Makes National Registry.” York County Coast Star, n.d.

“Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.” by Commander John Alden, U.S. Navy, Photography by Barnett Gallagher with list of surface ships and submarines built, including launch dates, 1965?

“Encomiums of the Yankees,” Review of Reviews, v.20, July 1899; “Prisons and Thomas Mott Osborne.” The Survey, Feb 10, 1917 (memo); “Abolishing a Human Scrap Heap.” Literary Digest, v. 57, June 15, 1918; “Books and Boys in Portsmouth Prison” by William Adams Slade, The Survey, Dec 27, 1919; Regulations. U.S. Naval Disciplinary Command Naval Base, Portsmouth, Oct 1, 1966; “A Brief History of the Naval Disciplinary Command.” Remarks by Col. W.I. Domina, USMC before Piscataqua History Club, Jan 21, 1971

S-48: “Rescue at Little Harbor, Portsmouth” by Chester L. Somers, Jan 25, 1925

Squalus: “Dead Dogfish,” Time Magazine, June 5, 1939

O-9: “Seventy-three Fathoms Down,” Time Magazine, June 30, 1939

Thresher: “Litany of Failures Preceded Thresher Fate.” n.d.; “Last Dive: The Thresher is Gone, But Her Crew is Remembered Quietly,” Maine Sunday Telegram, April 9, 1978; “USS Thresher Sank 15 Years Ago Today.” Manchester Union Leader, April 10, 1978; “The Thresher: The One Man Left Behind Just Might Have Saved the Ship.” Portland, Maine Press Herald, April 10, 1978; “The Only Man Who Didn’t Go Down With the Thresher.” Yankee, April 1978; USS Kretchmer: “Sixteen-Ton Lift,” n.d.

“Battle of the Seas: Gangster’s End.” (U-234 surrender) Time Magazine, May 28, 1945; “A Reporter at Large: The Surrender of the U-805,” New Yorker, July 21, 1945; “The U-Boat War.” n.d.; “Surrender at Sea: A Compilation of the Stories of the Surrender of the Nazi Submarines as presented over WHEB.” By Charlie Gray, 1945

Weathervane Menu/Newsletter with Navy Yard History, 1982; 1975 Centennial Celebration (Press Release). 1975; Apprentice Agreement, 1739 (photocopy)

“Underwater Ranges.” AUTEC – Atlantic Undersea Fest and Evaluation Center (brochure); “Little Known Facts About the Submarine.” General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, 1955; Unofficial Directory and Guide, Naval Submarine Base, New London, Groton, CT, 1977; “Naval War College Foundation, Inc.,” Newport, Rhode Island; “The Silent Service,” Raytheon Magazine, Winter 1985

“The Submarine in the US Navy.” Naval History Division, 1969; “Trident System,” Project Office, 1977; “Naval Command College Twentieth Anniversary Program,” United States Naval War College, Newport, RI; United States Naval War College: Fourth International Seapower Symposium, Newport, RI, July 6-9, 1976 (Report); United States Submarine Data Book/Submarine Force Library - Museum New London, CT, 1976. With listing of all subs built up to 1976; name changes; subs transferred to foreign countries