The Fleet Sonar School was a United States Navy facility in Key West, Florida for the training of Service personnel in Sonar techniques and equipment, and Anti-submarine warfare.
The facility opened in 1940, after personnel were transferred from the existing Atlantic Fleet Sound School in New London, Connecticut, which had opened in 1939. The school was invaluable for training sonar operators for the country's struggle against German U-boats a few years later. The base closed in the early 1970s.
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