USN Submarine Base, Ordnance Island, Bermuda
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US Navy Submarine Base, Ordnance Island. Ordnance Island, Bermuda
, which sits near the King's Square, in St. George's
, had gained its name as a Royal Army Ordnance Corp (RAOC) depot, supplying munitions to forts and batteries around the Colony
. By the Second World War, it was no longer useful in this role, and the US Navy was allowed to use the Island from 1942 to 1945 as a submarine base
.
Ordnance Island, Bermuda
Ordnance Island is located within the limits of St. George's town, Bermuda. It lies close to the shore opposite the town square , in St. George's Harbour....
, which sits near the King's Square, in St. George's
St. George's, Bermuda
St. George's , located on the island and within the parish of the same names, was the first permanent settlement on the islands of Bermuda, and is often described as the third successful English settlement in the Americas, after St. John's, Newfoundland, and Jamestown, Virginia. However, St...
, had gained its name as a Royal Army Ordnance Corp (RAOC) depot, supplying munitions to forts and batteries around the Colony
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
. By the Second World War, it was no longer useful in this role, and the US Navy was allowed to use the Island from 1942 to 1945 as a submarine base
Submarine base
A submarine base is a military base that shelters submarines and their personnel.Examples of present-day submarine bases include HMNB Clyde, Île Longue , Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Naval Submarine Base New London, and Rybachiy Nuclear Submarine Base .The Israeli navy bases its growing submarine...
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See also
- USN NAS Bermuda/NAS Annex, Morgans Point, 1941-1995USN NAS Bermuda/NAS Annex, Morgans Point, 1941-1995The United States Navy's Naval Operating Base, was a seaplane base in Bermuda, the original Naval Air Station Bermuda. Following the US Navy's take over of Kindley Air Force Base , the base was adopted to other uses as an annex to the new NAS Bermuda, the NAS Annex...
- USN NAS Bermuda, Kindley Field, 1970-1995
- USN Tudor Hill, 1954-1995USN Tudor Hill, 1954-1995USN Tudor Hill, 1954 — 1995. The US Navy operated a listening post from Tudor Hill, in Southampton, Bermuda from 1954 til the closure of US bases in 1995. This base remotely monitored sensors designed to listen for submarines moving through the Atlantic. There was some hope that the base would...