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.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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