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Street names at NUWC Division Newport’s honor the command’s historic inventors
230818-N-N1810-0003.JPG Photo By: Dave Stoehr and Library of Congress/U.S. Navy

Aug 24, 2023
NEWPORT, R.I. - Barber Street (left photo) at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport is named for Lt. F.M. Barber, who while stationed at the Naval Torpedo Station in the 1870s, co-designed a rocket torpedo that included a 48-pound warhead and 51 pounds of rocket propellant. Porter Street is named for U.S. Navy Adm. David Dixon Porter (right photo) and his father David Porter, a commodore in the Navy.


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