Naval Schools
in addition to the regular naval schools at Newport, R. I., Norfolk, Va., Great Lakes, Ill., and San Francisco, Cal., a number of others were opened in 1917 and 1918 to train the large number of men enlisting in the NAVARINO navy. Among these were the training stations at Bumkin Island, Boston Harbor, Bensonhurst, L. I., Pelham Bay Park, N. Y., Cape May, Cape May, N. J., Cherrystone Island, Va., Charleston S. C. (Navy Yard). Schools were established at the navy yards in Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, and other important cities for intensive training of the men before they were assigned to ships. near.
NAVARINO (-rēnō), or NEOCASTRO, officially PYLOS, a small seaport on a bay on the S. W. coast of the Morea, Greece; it has the best harbor in Greece. The ancient Pylos, the city of Nestor, stood The Bay of Navarino was the scene of a great sea-fight between the Athenians under Cleon and the Spatans (425 в. c.), in which the latter were defeated; and on Oct. 20, 1827, it saw the annihilation of the Turkish and Egyptian navies by the combined British, French, and Russian fleets under Sir Edward Codrington.