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Photo #: NH 105454

USS Buffalo
(1898-1927, later AD-8)

Boats from USS Buffalo completing the laying of 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 with the Alaskan Military Cable office at Sitka on the mainland. Two steam launches from the ship have towed an improvised pontoon carrying the cable reel from the Sitka side of the channel, where one end of the cable was connected, and are now standing back as the other end is delivered to the Japonski Island side. The pontoon consists of two of the ship's boats with a deck constructed over and connecting them.

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Image posted 29 January 2008