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.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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