Where the Fleet Begins: A History of the David Taylor Research Center, 1898 - 1998 - Paperbackby Rodney P. Carlisle (Author) Where the Fleet Begins A History of the David Taylor Research Center chronicles the first hundred years (1898 1998) of the Center which provides research and testing in the development and design of the U. S. Navy fleet of warships and submarines. Today, the Center continues to design ships and test models using precisely built towing tanks and computer simulation. The book describes the research, people and