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Photo #: NH 105434
USS Nero (1898-1922, later AC-17)
Off Unalga Island, Alaska, during the 1912 Alaskan Radio Expedition.
In the foreground is the second wharf built by the ship to get
supplies ashore for the radio station under construction there,
the first wharf having been destroyed by a storm on 19-21 June
1912.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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