Photo #: NH 77581
USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4)
Crewmen atop the ship's after smokestack, on the boat cranes
and on the boat deck during the morning of 18 January 1911, watching
for the arrival of Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss biplane. Shortly afterwards,
Ely made history's first airplane landing on Pennsylvania,
which was anchored in San Francisco Bay, California.
Another armored cruiser (probably USS California, flagship
of the Pacific Fleet's Second Squadron) and a ferryboat are in
the background.
Photographed by R.J. Waters & Co.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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