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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.

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Image posted 13 February 2008