Greenwich Bay, is a bay on the coast of

Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but it ...

in the

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near Warwick, RI and East Greenwich, Rhode Island off of

Narragansett Bay Narragansett Bay is a bay and estuary on the north side of Rhode Island Sound covering , of which is in Rhode Island. The bay forms New England's largest estuary, which functions as an expansive natural harbor and includes a small archipelago. Sm ...

. The

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seaplane tender USS ''Greenwich Bay'', in commission from 1945 to 1966, was named for the bay.

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* (See ship namesake paragraph.) Bays of Rhode Island East Greenwich, Rhode Island Landforms of Kent County, Rhode Island Narragansett Bay {{RhodeIsland-geo-stub