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Richard V. Simpson

Richard V. Simpson is a native Rhode Islander who has always lived within walking distance to Narragansett Bay, first in the Edgewood section of Cranston and then in Bristol, where he has lived since 1960. A graphic designer by trade, he worked in advertising, printing, display, and textile design studios. After retiring in 1996 from a twentynine-year federal civil service career with the U.S. Navy Supply Center and Naval Undersea Warfare Center, he began a second career as an author of books on subjects of historical interest in Rhode Island’s East Bay with his principal focus on Bristol. Beginning in 1985, Richard acted as a contributing editor for the national monthly Antiques & Collecting Magazine in which eighty-five of his articles have appeared.

His 1989 Independence Day: How the Day is Celebrated in Bristol, Rhode Island is the singular authoritative book on the subject; his many anecdotal Fourth of July articles have appeared in the local Bristol Phoenix and the Providence Journal. His history of Bristol’s Independence Day celebration is the source of a story in the July 1989 Yankee Magazine and July 4, 2010 issue of Parade Magazine.

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Thomas J. Lipton's America's Cup Campaigns

The saga of one man's three-decade obsession with winning the America's Cup.

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Goat Island and the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station: Guncotton, Smokeless Powder and Torpedoes

Weak maritime nations have always sought to augment the strength of their coastal defenses and navies by the use of “diabolical” contrivances for destroying an invader’s ships. The history of the adoption of the torpedo as a recognized implement of warfare is not unlike that ...

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The U.S. Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-4: An Account of the First Transatlantic Flight

Of the four Navy-Curtiss designed and built flying boats, only the NC-4, after many mechanical failures, was the only plane to complete its mission.

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Bristol Through Time

During the Revolutionary War, an incursion by English and Hessian troops in 1778 resulted in the destruction of the majority of Bristol's original buildings. Because of the destruction Bristol is left with an unusually consistent collection of houses constructed in the ensuing period between 1780 and 1820.

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Preserving Bristol: Restoring, Reviving and Remembering

In this book, author Richard V. Simpson regales the reader with compelling stories of the lives and times of Bristol's colourful inhabitants, their estates, and their adventures during the Revolution and privateering during the War of 1812.

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Thomas J. Lipton's America's Cup Campaigns

Goat Island and the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station: Guncotton, Smokeless Powder and Torpedoes

The U.S. Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-4: An Account of the First Transatlantic Flight

Bristol Through Time

Preserving Bristol: Restoring, Reviving and Remembering

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