Inactive Moorings for Battleship and Carriers

Pier 1 at the Naval Education and Training Center in Newport, RI, was constructed in 1954 for the conventional mooring of naval vessels. The original design required vessels to cast off and ride out storm conditions at sea. However, the U.S. Navy had a need to relocate the inactive aircraft carriers USS Forrestal and USS Saratoga, and the inactive battleship USS Iowa, to Pier 1. As an inactive mooring facility, the pier must withstand the loads imposed by the moored vessels during storms. Further, in this case, the loads are magnified since the battleship is moored to one of the carriers because Pier 1 is too short to accommodate two vessels along one side. The Navy proposed to add new batter piles to the pier to resist the unusually high mooring forces.