Photo #: NH 105460
USS Buffalo (1898-1927, later AD-8)
Transporting construction materials ashore at Dutch Harbor, Alaska,
in May or June 1914, during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.
The construction lumber is loaded on a pontoon built by the ship
that consists of two of the ship's boats joined together by a
rectangular deck on top. The pontoon is connected by a towline
to one of the ship's steam launches, in the background, which
will tow it to the shore. Note the tiller and rudder on the pontoon.
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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