Good Video! Thanks for sharing. As a young engineer, I spent some time at the Launcher Test Facility here back in the late 80's and early 90's. The launchers were upgraded back then and we (NUWC) tested Sub launched encapsulated missile shapes/trainers for the USN and our Allies. It was a critical asset in our development and test cycle of sub launched weapons and their trainers as it saved time and $$$ over using actual submarines.. I recall it was a pretty cool place even if it was a bit spooky. As an aside, I also remember there was a lone security guard that stayed out there for a few years. He had a pet beagle that he hid/kept with him for company. :-)
This is great, as always with your content. I pass by these all the time and everyone is always saying incorrect information. Now you need to cover Chepiwanoxet Point in Warwick. at one point it was a beach resort, then an old Water aircraft manufacturer, etc.
So awesome!! I love these WWII era island facilities dotted all over the bay. I should have a video about Rose Island out next Friday too with some footage I shot there over the summer!
Holly Torpedo Strike Batman that's one of the best YT Videos of Gould Island Torpedo Station ever made Mr Jason you outdid yourself again every video you put out is 100% better than the last video BTW all your videos are A plus made .. What blew my mind was testing 100 Torpedoes a day that's crazy numbers back and over 80 years .. I am just overwhelmed at how much history Gould Island has to offer .. Mr Jason and Family have a Grand Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year looking forward to 2025 with new Mr Jason's YT videos a Zillion Thumbs up From Tiverton RI
I’ve been intrigued by this island for a very long time! Building homes on Jamestown, it was often in the scenic view of many of the homes. Always wanted to take a boat out to explore, thankfully you did it for us. As always, it was a great video that didn’t disappoint.
Very exciting video! This location has been on mine and many other local explorers maps for well over a decade. I think you are the first person I've seen explore it, or at least put all the information in a comprehensive video. After the aerial maps were updated recently and seeing the buildings demolished, it really kicked the "value" of risking the explore. I am happy to see you went and I will need to share this video around if they don't see it on their own time.
Great video Jason! Loved watching this since I’ve been on the island in the past few years for clean up. I was never sure of the full history of the island. Great info 👍🏻
I grew up on the island and have always been so creeped out by all the abandoned military structures around. So creepy! Please do a video about the tank farms
Thanks for this. I've driven over the bridge my whole life and have always wondered what its use was. Sad to hear the firing station was only destroyed just last year. Time to egg on Newport to let us respectfully visit this historic spot
Our own RI historian with another great snippet of our past. I’ve enjoyed all your work over the years Jason. Being a Rhode Island native for all my 67 years I enjoy looking back at our great history. And love how you sneak in some humor “ Heavily fortified Dunkin Donuts 😆
My mom worked there in WW2 She was a draftswoman making top secret torpedo design drawings. They were all done in blue ink on starched linen. After the parts were made and tested the drawings were destroyed by soaking them in a tub of water. Because of fabric shortages my mother made her dresses from that now light blue linen.
Another spectacular Jadon Allard production! Thoroughly researched and documented with spectacular photos this video is mind blowing…..who knew??!! Many thanks Jason..
What an amazing video! Your history lesson was so awesomely comprehensive! Growing up, seeing that island every day, now knowing the real history to share is really so so cool
I have fished the coast of that island and saw the buildings all covered in trees. It was a huge building, and I was told it was for ammunition but did not know it was for torpedoes. Along the shore, they have tons of government signs saying keep out or you will be arrested. Great video!
We have some thing similar in Baltimore. Fort Carroll. I have flown it by launching drone from a boat and made a very amateur video a few years ago but seeing your video has given me an itch to go do it again. Thank you for sharing. Awesome video!
My grandmother used to talk about watching torpedos pass in the bay. It was just a weird detail that stuck with me, but it makes so much more sense now.
DUDE I feel so lucky to have gone in my youth, some really cool stuff out there that was later cleaned up with the navy effort to make the island safe enough to sell. I can confirm that going here is a no go, I have been several times over the years, and been chased off by the coast guard twice and, you wont believe me, a black hawk helicopter. also there is a third building you didnt mention that still stands, heres a concrete structure on the eat rhode just south of the dividing rhode that runs east west. awesome video man! please let me hlp ith a future dutch island video
When I used to work for the Navy, I was told equipment kept getting stolen off this island. Like equipment that was 1000’s of pounds heavy and just disappearing. Heard rumors about a barge with a crane making some night runs to load and leave. Not sure how valid the stories were, but did get confirmation large stuff was being removed.
Fantastic work Jason! Question for you; do you think youll ever do a video on the history of Scituate Reservoir? Just a thought! Thank you again for the history lesson and Happy Holidays to you and yours!
That would be an awesome video! I had the opportunity to fly around the reservoir this summer in a Blackhawk helicopter and I always knew it was big but it really put it into perspective.
i have not set foot there since the late 90s. the big brick building on the northern half was still there at that time. i remember an old torpedo launcher hanging half in the water as well. we tied the boat right up to the torpedo testing building and went ashore but we were all very nervous about getting caught lol! good times.
New subscriber ..... Really COOL video about Gould Is. *one that I have passed by in a boat, and by car while crossing the Pell Bridge . "Thanks" for the well narrated video, on it's long history
The "blast walls" weren't to protect from enemy fire. If the explosives were to have gone off, the wall is there to try and channel the explosion upward, instead horizontally
Yes, but in Tru, Rhode Island fashion Jason’s whole premise of his series is how everybody abandoned this stinking hellhole everyone with two functioning. Brain cells has left.ri
The amount of birds there are insane. My friend and I stopped there once just to check it out. We didn’t go any further in than the coast because there were so many birds I had never seen anything like it
I live in Newport. I’ve been on Gould Island twice. It’s a pretty neat place. Never knew it was under surveillance and never ran into anyone like the Harbor Master or MP’s on there.
I went to Gould Island several times in the early 1990s - on the RI DEM side. I worked for the DEM, we went to do bird counts on the island. It was very eerie to be honest. All of the old, dilapidated buildings and roads reminded me of a scene out of a scary movie.
Nice video! I've done a lot of diving around that island. Under the roadway to the firing house is loaded with fish at times easy pickings with a speargun.
I don't know if you heard, but the organization known as Strong Towns, and advocacy group for urban planning and renewal, is going to be holding their annual conference in Providence. You should totally go, as you have a very intimate history with the city and some of its abandoned places.
My father was stationed here at the end of WWII. He had served in the South Pacific aboard the U.S.S. Bunker Hill (CV-17) and his ship had sustained terrible damage near the end of the war. The ship went to Bremerton and he finished his days in the Navy waiting to be discharged in Narragansett Bay. He told us a story of being out on the bay (I thought his story said he was on some sort of floating target dock) when he was surprised to see a torpedo speeding his way. Perhaps he obfuscated a tad here, but he told us (his kids) that his fear of zooming torpedoes after seeing their power numerous times prompted him to immediately bail out of his station and started swimming away. When nothing explosive happened he went back to his post, dripping wet and cold.
There’s a place in Cranston that I would go to with a group of my 4-5 best friends almost every single day while growing up in the late 90s to early 2000s. We’d either quickly cut through someone’s backyard to begin the trek there or use a more harsh path through the woods that didn’t go through someone’s property. It’s a known and established historical site at one end but no one ever really would go miles further to see the indigenous relics and more. We probably spent 1,000 hours there from age 10 to 16. There’s a certain spot where there are huge 20+ glacial dispersed type boulders. In between 2-3 of them in a tight but deep hole, there’s actually a full sized cannon; I’d assume it’s 1800s era. I wish I could return now after getting my Anthropology masters a decade+ ago but I did some legit damage to my lower back. I’d love to bring you there but idk how it’d go lmao. Back then you only had the most basic dialup so it was so easy to access. Besides that, there’s so much more to be found in the area where it isn’t a historical site. We’ve had really intense “spiritual/paranormal” experiences there that would kind’ve sound nuts on here so I’ll pass for now…and no, no one did any drugs haha. It’d be a great spot for you to explore beyond the established location but I’d have to look into it more Oh! And there are multiple ways and locations to reach other parts of connecting areas to that spot that also have some really incredible things to discover. I’m surprised it’s never been looked into more by mainstream anthropology.
Fascinating! On Google Maps currently there is a 2023 image where from E. Shore Rd you can see across the water that the torpedo building is still there...
State part of the Island was open a few years ago from August 16th to April 14th, wonder when that changed. Was really cool to roam around the old buildings. North end was suppose to be off limits.
also, if you look at a nautical chart of Narragansett Bay the immediate area north of GOULD island is a no anchor zone because well you might not want to put an anchor on top of a live torpedo
Years ago, I worked with a man who was stationed there throughout WW2."Chasing torpedoes" and recovering them was his job. Year after year till VJ Day.
I worked for a construction company that dismantled the lift elevator on that island. There is asbestos and un-exploded torpedoes littered all along the bottom of the ocean around that island.
i grew up in jamestown, you mentioned gould, goat and prudence islands. but you failed to mention dutch island. also the navy still has the underwater warfare college in newport. quonset point in north kingstown is a portion of electric boat and builds nuclear submarines.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha that’s a pretty good try it used to be naval underwater system center now it’s not naval under sea warfare center… Also the naval war colleges separate from that technically in there is also SWOS surface warfare officers school if you want the entirety
You have dutch island off Jamestown that was apart of the coastal defense system. RI DEM own the island now after the last government contract was complete.
The way I just jumped on this video!! Thank you Jason! You do amazing work for us Rhode Islanders to see!!
Good Video! Thanks for sharing. As a young engineer, I spent some time at the Launcher Test Facility here back in the late 80's and early 90's. The launchers were upgraded back then and we (NUWC) tested Sub launched encapsulated missile shapes/trainers for the USN and our Allies. It was a critical asset in our development and test cycle of sub launched weapons and their trainers as it saved time and $$$ over using actual submarines.. I recall it was a pretty cool place even if it was a bit spooky. As an aside, I also remember there was a lone security guard that stayed out there for a few years. He had a pet beagle that he hid/kept with him for company. :-)
Some guys have all the fun. I never did get out there.
Were those the mk18s?
This is great, as always with your content. I pass by these all the time and everyone is always saying incorrect information. Now you need to cover Chepiwanoxet Point in Warwick. at one point it was a beach resort, then an old Water aircraft manufacturer, etc.
So awesome!! I love these WWII era island facilities dotted all over the bay. I should have a video about Rose Island out next Friday too with some footage I shot there over the summer!
Nice. I'm a new subscriber to your channel. It's fun sending videos like these to friends and family who lived in RI but moved away.
@@ChrisP872 Thank you!
Holly Torpedo Strike Batman that's one of the best YT Videos of Gould Island Torpedo Station ever made Mr Jason you outdid yourself again every video you put out is 100% better than the last video BTW all your videos are A plus made .. What blew my mind was testing 100 Torpedoes a day that's crazy numbers back and over 80 years .. I am just overwhelmed at how much history Gould Island has to offer .. Mr Jason and Family have a Grand Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year looking forward to 2025 with new Mr Jason's YT videos a Zillion Thumbs up From Tiverton RI
Sup Jason! Whenever you upload I know its a good day.
I’ve been intrigued by this island for a very long time! Building homes on Jamestown, it was often in the scenic view of many of the homes. Always wanted to take a boat out to explore, thankfully you did it for us. As always, it was a great video that didn’t disappoint.
Hell yeah man! Thank you for making these!
Hi Jason!! Great to see another video!!
Very exciting video! This location has been on mine and many other local explorers maps for well over a decade. I think you are the first person I've seen explore it, or at least put all the information in a comprehensive video.
After the aerial maps were updated recently and seeing the buildings demolished, it really kicked the "value" of risking the explore. I am happy to see you went and I will need to share this video around if they don't see it on their own time.
Great video Jason! Loved watching this since I’ve been on the island in the past few years for clean up. I was never sure of the full history of the island. Great info 👍🏻
Lucky duck!
I grew up on the island and have always been so creeped out by all the abandoned military structures around. So creepy! Please do a video about the tank farms
this is so underrated. such a well researched and narrated little piece of history. Keep doing this, cause you're gonna blow up
Always Award Winning Cinematography from Rhode Island's Foremost Videographer! Great Job Jason! ~ Tony - Providence RI
Thanks for this. I've driven over the bridge my whole life and have always wondered what its use was. Sad to hear the firing station was only destroyed just last year. Time to egg on Newport to let us respectfully visit this historic spot
Lived here my whole life and never heard of half of these places. So awesome! Keep them coming!
So glad this randomly came up for me on UA-cam. RIer here and love our history. Thanks for this.
Our own RI historian with another great snippet of our past. I’ve enjoyed all your work over the years Jason. Being a Rhode Island native for all my 67 years I enjoy looking back at our great history. And love how you sneak in some humor “ Heavily fortified Dunkin Donuts 😆
My mom worked there in WW2 She was a draftswoman making top secret torpedo design drawings. They were all done in blue ink on starched linen. After the parts were made and tested the drawings were destroyed by soaking them in a tub of water. Because of fabric shortages my mother made her dresses from that now light blue linen.
That is so cool! Do you have pictures that you can share? It would be a great follow-up to this video.
Hi neighbor! As a mariner I’ve passed it a thousand times and always wanted to see more. Thank you!
Another spectacular Jadon Allard production! Thoroughly researched and documented with spectacular photos this video is mind blowing…..who knew??!! Many thanks Jason..
Wow, very interesting location with rich history! Phenomenal drone shots as always! 🔥
Jmass you should parachute into the island. I believe in you, you can do it
What an amazing video! Your history lesson was so awesomely comprehensive! Growing up, seeing that island every day, now knowing the real history to share is really so so cool
Another great video, Jason. Thanks for teaching me this fascinating gem of Rhode Island history!
Fascinating story and very well-done video. Great job.
Awesome!!! Always providing epic Rhode Island content!Great watch, thankyou!
Loved your stuff Jason . Excellent producing too. I'm a fan. Keep up the good work guys. Love from NK
Thank you for filming this. So interesting
thank you for proving interesting information about something that i have seen countless times and never really thought about!!
Jacob, Amazing documentary!!! I'm subscribing right now!!! Thanks. Kindest regards, Martin
I used to live in Jamestown and I often wondered about this island but kept forgetting to look it up. Awesome video.
Same here. I lived there for 10 years and never learned anything about this island. Glad I got to watch this video.
Keep up the great work
I appreciate these videos!
Awsome video , always enjoy learning about local history i had no idea about
your vids are too good for youtube
Thank you for the informative video. You produce excellent work!
Excellent history lesson! Thanks.
Such high quality Rhode Island content. ⚓
Great video. Excellent production!
Love Jamestown Island. Thanks for the history
Fantastic video, and informative too!
I have fished the coast of that island and saw the buildings all covered in trees. It was a huge building, and I was told it was for ammunition but did not know it was for torpedoes. Along the shore, they have tons of government signs saying keep out or you will be arrested. Great video!
We have some thing similar in Baltimore. Fort Carroll. I have flown it by launching drone from a boat and made a very amateur video a few years ago but seeing your video has given me an itch to go do it again. Thank you for sharing. Awesome video!
By the way...thank you for helping me appreciate my home state better, and for giving people more reason to love it.
My grandmother used to talk about watching torpedos pass in the bay. It was just a weird detail that stuck with me, but it makes so much more sense now.
DUDE I feel so lucky to have gone in my youth, some really cool stuff out there that was later cleaned up with the navy effort to make the island safe enough to sell. I can confirm that going here is a no go, I have been several times over the years, and been chased off by the coast guard twice and, you wont believe me, a black hawk helicopter. also there is a third building you didnt mention that still stands, heres a concrete structure on the eat rhode just south of the dividing rhode that runs east west. awesome video man! please let me hlp ith a future dutch island video
Great video, Jason! I Loved it.
Thank you again for your help 🎥
When I used to work for the Navy, I was told equipment kept getting stolen off this island. Like equipment that was 1000’s of pounds heavy and just disappearing. Heard rumors about a barge with a crane making some night runs to load and leave. Not sure how valid the stories were, but did get confirmation large stuff was being removed.
Fantastic work Jason! Question for you; do you think youll ever do a video on the history of Scituate Reservoir? Just a thought! Thank you again for the history lesson and Happy Holidays to you and yours!
That would be an awesome video! I had the opportunity to fly around the reservoir this summer in a Blackhawk helicopter and I always knew it was big but it really put it into perspective.
@@jthetunes1 Thanks for the comment! There is so much history to that reservoir, maybe Jason will see the comment and make a video? Merry Christmas!
Fantastic video! Bravo!
Great job!!! This is one of our favorite places to fish 🐟
i have not set foot there since the late 90s. the big brick building on the northern half was still there at that time. i remember an old torpedo launcher hanging half in the water as well. we tied the boat right up to the torpedo testing building and went ashore but we were all very nervous about getting caught lol! good times.
THank you for the history lesson. I do appreciate your research.
New subscriber ..... Really COOL video about Gould Is. *one that I have passed by in a boat, and by car while crossing the Pell Bridge . "Thanks" for the well narrated video, on it's long history
Well done video , nice job and thank you
Love the videos. It's a funny reminder of when states like RI actually manufactured.... anything.
Awesome 😎 video! Keep up the good work
Nicely done
compliments for the sounds ❤
Thank you Jason for the history lesson. I didn't know anything obout this island.
Perhaps you could do something about the WW ll PT Boat training facility on the Bay at Melville RI in the future...
As always great
Excellent video, thanks!
The "blast walls" weren't to protect from enemy fire. If the explosives were to have gone off, the wall is there to try and channel the explosion upward, instead horizontally
Awesome doc!
popped up cause it said RI!!! im glad our state finally getting some light shed on it more often!!
Yes, but in Tru, Rhode Island fashion Jason’s whole premise of his series is how everybody abandoned this stinking hellhole everyone with two functioning. Brain cells has left.ri
And Jason, it's a grinder in RI LOL 😆
100% 😂 they're not serving torpedoes at J's deli or Olly's pizza
@jthetunes1 Nope LMAO!
Wicked awesome video
We are all from New England. I live in Mass and enjoy your work also.
Great video 🥳
The amount of birds there are insane. My friend and I stopped there once just to check it out. We didn’t go any further in than the coast because there were so many birds I had never seen anything like it
Awesome video man. I'm pretty sure the real seagull sanctuary is Galilee where all the fishing boats are 😂
I live in Newport. I’ve been on Gould Island twice. It’s a pretty neat place. Never knew it was under surveillance and never ran into anyone like the Harbor Master or MP’s on there.
interesting info! I never knew about that island. I have been to Rose Island a few times. Thats a touristy place people can take a boat to.
I went to Gould Island several times in the early 1990s - on the RI DEM side. I worked for the DEM, we went to do bird counts on the island. It was very eerie to be honest. All of the old, dilapidated buildings and roads reminded me of a scene out of a scary movie.
Nice video! I've done a lot of diving around that island. Under the roadway to the firing house is loaded with fish at times easy pickings with a speargun.
Interesting! & very cool!
I don't know if you heard, but the organization known as Strong Towns, and advocacy group for urban planning and renewal, is going to be holding their annual conference in Providence. You should totally go, as you have a very intimate history with the city and some of its abandoned places.
Let's be honest, that was 100% you on the island lol
My father was stationed here at the end of WWII. He had served in the South Pacific aboard the U.S.S. Bunker Hill (CV-17) and his ship had sustained terrible damage near the end of the war. The ship went to Bremerton and he finished his days in the Navy waiting to be discharged in Narragansett Bay. He told us a story of being out on the bay (I thought his story said he was on some sort of floating target dock) when he was surprised to see a torpedo speeding his way. Perhaps he obfuscated a tad here, but he told us (his kids) that his fear of zooming torpedoes after seeing their power numerous times prompted him to immediately bail out of his station and started swimming away. When nothing explosive happened he went back to his post, dripping wet and cold.
Interesting ! 👍
I died at the fortified Dunkin joke. 😂😂
THANK YOU.HAPPY HOLIDAYS..
Preservation...
By destroying the buildings...
Makes total sense...
I’m from Pawtucket, moved out here a decade ago from NYC. I had no idea that little island existed.
There’s a place in Cranston that I would go to with a group of my 4-5 best friends almost every single day while growing up in the late 90s to early 2000s. We’d either quickly cut through someone’s backyard to begin the trek there or use a more harsh path through the woods that didn’t go through someone’s property. It’s a known and established historical site at one end but no one ever really would go miles further to see the indigenous relics and more. We probably spent 1,000 hours there from age 10 to 16. There’s a certain spot where there are huge 20+ glacial dispersed type boulders. In between 2-3 of them in a tight but deep hole, there’s actually a full sized cannon; I’d assume it’s 1800s era. I wish I could return now after getting my Anthropology masters a decade+ ago but I did some legit damage to my lower back. I’d love to bring you there but idk how it’d go lmao. Back then you only had the most basic dialup so it was so easy to access.
Besides that, there’s so much more to be found in the area where it isn’t a historical site. We’ve had really intense “spiritual/paranormal” experiences there that would kind’ve sound nuts on here so I’ll pass for now…and no, no one did any drugs haha. It’d be a great spot for you to explore beyond the established location but I’d have to look into it more
Oh! And there are multiple ways and locations to reach other parts of connecting areas to that spot that also have some really incredible things to discover. I’m surprised it’s never been looked into more by mainstream anthropology.
Very interesting thanks for sharing
Fascinating! On Google Maps currently there is a 2023 image where from E. Shore Rd you can see across the water that the torpedo building
is still there...
State part of the Island was open a few years ago from August 16th to April 14th, wonder when that changed. Was really cool to roam around the old buildings. North end was suppose to be off limits.
Why did they tear everything down?
They should have preserved the testing building. It was a landmark of historical significance.
also, if you look at a nautical chart of Narragansett Bay the immediate area north of GOULD island is a no anchor zone because well you might not want to put an anchor on top of a live torpedo
I would LOVE to see what his ability could create for a promo video!
Years ago, I worked with a man who was stationed there throughout WW2."Chasing torpedoes" and recovering them was his job. Year after year till VJ Day.
I worked for a construction company that dismantled the lift elevator on that island. There is asbestos and un-exploded torpedoes littered all along the bottom of the ocean around that island.
I visited Rhode Island many times from adjacent Connecticut and never knew about this.
Keep on Keep N
Do a video at Dutch island in Jamestown....there's alot of abandoned stuff there
It's like Rhode Island's version of the forbidden Discovery Island at Disney World.
i grew up in jamestown, you mentioned gould, goat and prudence islands. but you failed to mention dutch island. also the navy still has the underwater warfare college in newport. quonset point in north kingstown is a portion of electric boat and builds nuclear submarines.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha that’s a pretty good try it used to be naval underwater system center now it’s not naval under sea warfare center… Also the naval war colleges separate from that technically in there is also SWOS surface warfare officers school if you want the entirety
Was really intrigued to visit until you mentioned that most of the structures are long since gone😂
Still very interesting👍
You have dutch island off Jamestown that was apart of the coastal defense system. RI DEM own the island now after the last government contract was complete.