Photo #: NH 105453
USS Buffalo (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 Historical Center Photograph.
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