United States Naval Station White's Island, Bermuda United States Naval Station White's Island, Bermuda 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. It was established during the First World War (or the "Great War", as it was originally known in Britain) by the US Navy for use by anti-submarine vessels transiting on their way from the United States to the European theatre of operations. Bermuda had already housed the Admiralty House, dockyard, and naval base of the North America and
History of the Royal Navy winter base of the North America and West Indies Squadron, and then as its year-round headquarters, naval station, and dockyard, with its Admiralty House at Mount Wyndham, in Bailey's Bay, and then at Spanish Point, opposite Ireland Island on the mouth of Great Sound. Located off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, South of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, and North-East of Miami, Bermuda replaced the continental bases between Canada and the West Indies that the Royal Navy had been deprived of by American independence. During the War of 1812 the Royal Navy's blockade of the US Atlantic ports was coordinated from