Two of the hardest hit areas on the west side of the bay were 

 the towns of Iv'arwick and North Kingstown. Some of the heaviest 

 destruction in the upper portion of Narragansett Bay took place in 

 the Oakland Beach and Coniraicut Point sections of VJarwick, where 

 many summer and year round horaes were leveled. The incidence of 

 total destruction was exceptionally high in this area. A heavy 

 toll of property was taken all along the shore from Pawtvixet Cove, 

 where a fleet of more than 100 pleasure boats was wrecked, to 

 Apponaug and Chipiwanoxet at the head of Greenwich Bay .and aroiind 

 the southern shore into the Bayridge section of Potowomut. Point 

 House at Conimicut Point and the Shore Dinner Hall at F.ocky Point 

 were completely destroyed. The 195U storm left nothing but the 

 foundation piles of the Rhode Island Tacht Club at Pawtuxet Neck, 

 which had been rebuilt after the same fate in 1938, In the town 

 of V'arx-jick alone almost 900 homes were damaged and over 200 of 

 this number were completely destroyed. 



All but 10 percent of the industrial loss of $1,900,000 was 

 sustained by four industrial concerns in Wairwick. One of the 

 heaviest individual losses in the area occurred at the plant of the 

 Apponaug Textile Finishing Company on Centerville Road. Flooded 

 with 5 feet of salt water, a great amount of equipment was damaged, 

 and thousands of yards of cloth were either damaged or destroyed. 



In North Kingstown the destruction x-^as even greater. Major 

 losses included heavy damage to facilities at the Quonset Naval 

 Air Station, the Naval Construction Battalion Center at Davis ville, 

 and extensive damage to over UOO horaes and U5 commercial establish- 

 ments in the area. Damages north of the Naval Base were concen- 

 trated along the waterfront of the Mount Vievr section whei^e resi- 

 dential properties were hard hit, including the loss of consider- 

 able land along the waterfront, walkways, and destruction of sea- 

 wall protection due to wave undercutting. 



The exposed shorelines of Narragansett and Jamestown, on Conani- 

 cut Island, were also heavily battered by the wind-driven tidal 

 flooding. Over 36O homes in the Narragansett- James town area were 

 damaged, and about 15 were completely destroyed. The large, two- 

 story frame building of the Canonchet Club on the Narragansett 

 waterfront was split in two, and the destruction along the well- 

 known Narragansett Pier was heavy. The main bathhouse suffered 

 heavy damage, and many rows of bathhouses were washed away. The 

 Jamestown Harbor area was also hard hit. The East Shore Ferry 

 Station was badly damaged, and many cottages were destroyed on 

 East Shore Drive. 



d . East Side; Narragansett Bay and Mount Hope Bay . Tidal 

 flood losses on the east side of Narragansett Bay were almost as 



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