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Naval Operating Base Bermuda; Naval Station Bermuda; U S Naval Air Station Bermuda. The grants came as a surprise to the Colonial Government, when US engineers arrived in 1940 to begin surveying the colony for the construction of an airfield that was envisioned as taking over most of the West End of the Island.
White's Island in 2006. The United States Naval Station Whites Island was a United States Navy (USN) facility located on White's Island in Hamilton Harbour, in the British Colony of Bermuda, 640 miles off the coast of North Carolina.
The United States Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) is a laboratory that performs integrated three-dimensional hydrospace/aerospace trajectory measurements covering the entire spectrum of undersea simulated warfare – calibration, classifications, detection, and destruction.
United States Navy Submarine Base, Ordnance Island. Second World War. United States Navy, Naval Facility Bermuda. (Tudor Hill) 1954–1995. Bermuda Base Command, US Army. 1941–1945. United States Army, Fort Bell. 1941–1948. United States Army Air Forces, Kindley Field. 1943–1948. United States Air Force, Kindley Air Force Base. 1948 ...
Air force base: Site information; Owner: United States (1940-1995) Government of Bermuda (current) Operator: Joint USAAF and RAF (1943-1945) United States Air Force (1945-1970) United States Navy (1970-1995) Open to the public: Yes: Condition: Operational - returned to the Bermudian government for use as L.F. Wade International Airport: Site ...
HMD Bermuda (Her/His Majesty's Dockyard, Bermuda) was the principal base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic between American independence and the Cold War.The Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda had occupied a useful position astride the homeward leg taken by many European vessels from the New World since before its settlement by England in 1609.
Following US independence, the Royal Navy, deprived of its continental bases between Nova Scotia and the West Indies, established the Royal Naval Dockyard on Ireland Island. In addition to Ireland, Boaz , and Watford islands at the West of the Great Sound , the Admiralty purchased most of the small islands in the Great Sound and Hamilton Harbour.
RNAS Bermuda (the personnel of which, as with all members of the America and West Indies Station shore establishment in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda at the time, were part of the strength of the stone frigate HMS Malabar) was a Royal Naval Air Station in the Royal Naval Dockyard on Ireland Island until 1939, then Boaz Island (and also the conjoined Watford Island), Bermuda.