Photo #: NH 105435
USS Nero (1898-1922, later AC-17)
Offloading a motor boat built for use by the new radio station
on Unalga Island, Alaska, circa June 1912 during the Alaskan
Radio Expedition.
The boat was swamped in a storm on 12 September 1912 and gales
thwarted efforts by the cutters Tahoma and Bear
to raise it. Note the details of the cargo handling gear on this
Navy collier, built in 1895 as a British freighter.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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