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A huge public turnout follows, stoking the budding relationship between the city and the Navy. Scripps becomes a technical partner for the Navy, advising it on everything from how to get troops ashore for the D-Day invasion of World War II to current projects involving undersea gliders.ġ908: The city persuades the Navy’s Atlantic fleet - known as the Great White Fleet - to visit San Diego during its historic circumnavigation of the globe.

Book excerpt: Cold War subs’ undersea collisionġ906: Ellen Browning Scripps donates $50,000 to create a marine biological institution, which evolves into the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.

Memories: Navy vets recall dedication, sacrifice at sea.

Overview: SD booming as fleet modernizes.

NavyTown index: The ships of San Diego’s fleet.

The distance record for wireless transmissions was then 125 miles, a figure that soars to about 500 miles as the Navy connects with a base in the San Francisco Bay Area. 1906: The Navy modestly expands its presence by placing a wireless radio station on Point Loma.