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NH 105453 USS Buffalo

Photo #: NH 105453 USS Buffalo
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Title: USS Buffalo
Description: (1898-1927, later AD-8) Boats from USS Buffalo preparing to lay 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). A steam launch from the ship is alongside an improvised pontoon carrying the cable reel. The cable has been connected at the Sitka end and the pontoon will soon be towed across the channel, paying out cable on the way. Buffalo is moored at the pier of the Japonski Island naval coaling station, with the station's two coal sheds visible to the right. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 105453
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