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Photo #: NH 105599

USS Buffalo
(1898-1927, later AD-8)

Landing construction materials at Kodiak, Alaska, in early July 1914 during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.
The radio station built on Woody Island near Kodiak by the 1912 Alaskan Radio Expedition embarked in USS Nero was destroyed by fire on 27 July 1913 and the 1914 expedition in Buffalo built replacement facilities there. The large cylindrical object on the ship's cargo pontoon is probably one of several tanks that stored the fuel for the station's electrical generators and heating plant.

Collection of Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor, donated by Louisa R. Alger, 1962.

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Image posted 12 March 2008