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| | United States Naval War College Museum on Visit New England |
 | | The first naval ships engagement of the war occurred on the bay in June, 1775, when the sloop KATY of the Rhode Island Navy, the first American state navy of the Revolution, met and defeated the sloop DIANA, tender of the HMS ROSE, stationed at Newport to enforce the hated Acts of Trade. |
 | | During the Civil War, the Naval Academy was resident in Newport, and in the immediate post-war years, the Naval Torpedo Station, the Navy's first laboratory, was established on Goat Island in Newport's inner harbor. |
 | | This was followed by the establishment of the Naval Training Station, the first shore-based recruit training facility in America, on Coasters Harbor Island in 1883, the establishment of the Naval War College in 1884, and the use of the bay as the principle anchorage for the developing Atlantic Fleet after 1900. |
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