Quonset Point
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Quonset Point is a small peninsula in Narragansett Bay in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It is contained entirely within the town of North Kingstown.
Formerly the location of a large United States Navy base (Quonset Point Naval Air Station), once the home of the Naval Construction Battalions known as the SeaBees and was the off-season home of the Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6) during the 1960s. Quonset Point gave its name to the Quonset hut, a standardized temporary structure used by the US military starting in World War II. The peninsula is now used for industrial purposes and is partially abandoned. A major industrial tenant is a hull-fabrication and outfitting facility for Electric Boat Corporation.
Rhode Island State Highway 403 is being rebuilt as a freeway branching from RI 4 to serve the area; it is also served by a railroad spur from Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (which the Providence and Worcester Railroad operates along).