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NH 105452 USS Buffalo

Photo #: NH 105452 USS Buffalo
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Title: USS Buffalo
Description: (1898-1927, later AD-8) Boats from USS Buffalo laying a communications cable at Sitka, Alaska, in October or late September 1914, during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition. The cable connected the Navy-built radio station on Japonski Island (background) with the Alaskan Military Cable office at Sitka on the mainland (foreground). Two steam launches from the ship and an improvised pontoon carrying the cable reel are part way across the channel during the cable laying operation. Buffalo is moored at the pier of the Japonski Island naval coaling station, with the station's two coal sheds visible to the right. The radio station is just to the right of the coaling station. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 105452
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