Photo #: NH 105472
USS Buffalo (1898-1927, later AD-8)
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. The cable laying crew is carrying the end of the cable
from the beached cable laying pontoon to the radio station. Two
of the station's three towers are visible. The third tower, out
of the image to the right, was probably built by the 1914 expedition.
Most of the other structures are part of the adjacent coaling
station.
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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