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Home Town Wayne County, Tennessee
Date of Passing Nov 28, 1958
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Captain Newton H. White (an Annapolis graduate retired from the U.S. Navy, as well as a wealthy insurance company founder in Tennessee).
Captain Newton H. White, Jr., USN: Commanding Officer of Enterprise CV-6 from her commissioning on 12 May 1938 to 21 December 1938. Captain White had a long and distinguished career, serving on the USS Yorktown, the USS Lexington, and, prior to World War II, as the first commanding officer of the USS Enterprise.
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The Newton White Mansion
History
In 1939, Captain and Mrs. Newton H. White purchased land in Prince George's County with the intention of creating a model dairy farm. The farm proved to be very lucrative and the couple commissioned architect W.E. Bottomly to build a mansion on the property. During his distinguished naval career, Captain White served on the U.S.S. Yorktown and the U.S.S. Lexington.
He named the two-story brick Neo-Georgian style home and the surrounding 586 acre tract Enterprise Estate, after the U.S.S. Enterprise, the ship he commanded prior to World War II. Today the mansion is surrounded by Enterprise Golf Course and consists of six large rooms, a contemporary glass-enclosed atrium, two upstairs dressing rooms, and an outdoor brick patio with a central waterfall fountain.
Nevada Class Battleship:
Displacement 27,500 Tons, Dimensions, 583' (oa) x 95' 3" x 29' 7" (Max) Armament 10 x 14"/45 21 x 5"/51, 2 x 21" tt. Armor, 13 1/2" Belt, 18" Triple Turrets, 16" Dual turrets, 3" Second (armor) Deck, 2 1/2" Third (splinter) Deck 16" Conning Tower. Machinery, 24,800 IHP; 2 vertical, Triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 20.5 Knots, Crew 864. Operational and Building Data: Laid down by New York, Shipbuilding, Camden, NJ., October 26, 1912. Launched March 23, 1914. Commissioned May 2, 1916. Decommissioned (War Loss). Stricken September 1, 1944. Fate: Sunk by Japanese aircraft during attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii, December 7, 1941. 20 Officers and 395 Men were lost with the ship and remain on duty.
Her hulk was raised in 1943, Sold for scrap December 5 1946. Hulk sank while under tow to breakers, 540 miles NE, Pearl Harbor, May 17, 1947.
Other Memories 'All United States vessels of war will be equipped at once with hydroplane catapults, it was revealed at the harbor today by Lieut.- Commander Newton H. White, aviation officer of Admiral Robert E. Coontz' staff. The feasibility of the catapult, which was only an idea a year ago, was demonstrated by Lieut.- Commander White yesterday when, with his fellow pilot, Lieutenant Council, he was shot from the catapult aboard the U.S.S. Oklahoma into a cross wind, flew out to meet the California as that man-o'-war steamed into the Los Angeles Harbor, California, and returned again to the Oklahoma without mishap.'
