Photo #: NH 77524
USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4)
Scene on the ship's deck, looking aft from amidships on the starboard
side during the morning of 18 January 1911. Crewmen are watching
for the arrival of Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss biplane, which soon
would land on board, the first airplane landing on a warship.
Pennsylvania was anchored in San Francisco Bay, California,
at the time.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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