Photo #: NH 105452
USS Buffalo (1898-1927, later AD-8)
Boats from USS Buffalo laying 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). Two steam launches from the
ship and an improvised pontoon carrying the cable reel are part
way across the channel during the cable laying operation. Buffalo
is moored at the pier of the Japonski Island naval coaling station,
with the station's two coal sheds visible to the right. The radio
station is just to the right of the coaling station.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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