Photo #: NH 105458
USS Buffalo (1898-1927, later AD-8)
Hoisting or lowering a newly-assembled pontoon at Dutch Harbor,
Alaska, in May or June 1914, during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.
The pontoon consisted of two of the ship's boats with a rectangular
deck constructed on top and connecting them. It was used to take
supplies ashore from the ship at several radio stations and later
for laying a communications cable at Sitka, Alaska. Many of the
radio and construction personnel in the expedition were civilians.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral
Montgomery M. Taylor, donated by Louisa R. Alger, 1962.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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