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Photo # NH 105469: The USS Buffalo baseball team during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.

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USS Buffalo -- 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition (Part 2)

Between 1911 and 1914 the Navy sent a series of three Alaskan Radio Expeditions to build a network of radio stations. The 1911 Alaskan Radio Expedition, in USS Buffalo, and the 1912 Alaskan Radio Expedition, in USS Nero, built stations on Woody Island near Kodiak, on St. Paul and St. George in the Pribilof Islands, on the island of Unalga, and at Dutch Harbor near Unalaska. In 1914 Buffalo returned with the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition which upgraded and repaired all seven stations.

Buffalo departed San Francisco with the 1914 expedition, which included 44 civilians, on 7 May and returned to Mare Island on 27 October 1912. The photographs on this page show Buffalo during the middle portion of the expedition, celebrating Independence Day at Kodiak, moored at the coal pier at Unalaska (Dutch Harbor), and taking on coal from railcars at Cordova. Also included are formal group photographs of the ships's officers, one of the ship's divisions, its boat personnel, and its baseball team.

The photographs of the 1914 expedition are from two sources: the official report of the expedition (an oversized looseleaf volume containing copies of documents, blueprints of facilities and equipment, and photographs), and a photograph album made for the Commanding Officer of Buffalo, Commander Montgomery M. Taylor, USN. Both items are now in the collection of the Naval Historical Foundation at the Naval Historical Center.


This page features views of USS Buffalo during the middle portion of the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Buffalo (1898-1927, later AD-8)
  • USS Buffalo -- 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition (Part 1)
  • USS Buffalo -- 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition (Part 3)


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 105461

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

    At the Unalaska (Dutch Harbor) coal dock in late June 1914 during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105462

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

    At the Unalaska (Dutch Harbor) coal dock in late June 1914 during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105451

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

    At the Unalaska coal dock in late June 1914 during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105444

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

    At Kodiak, Alaska, on 4 July 1914 during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105465

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

    At the wharf at Cordova, Alaska, between late July and mid-September 1914 during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.
    Note the coal train on the pier in the background. The worn paint around the ship's bow is evidence of the many times that she had to use her anchors during the expedition.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105466

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

    Coaling ship at Cordova, Alaska, between late July and mid-September 1914 during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.
    The sides of the railroad coal cars have been opened, spilling the coal on the pier, where Sailors and local laborers shovel it into wheelbarrows and take it to the ship.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105467

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

    Coaling ship at Cordova, Alaska, between late July and mid-September 1914 during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.
    The coal that has been dumped onto the pier from the railroad coal cars is being loaded into wheelbarrows by Sailors and local laborers using large coal shovels and is then being taken to the ship.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105463

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

    The ship's officers posing on the main deck near the stern during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.
    The ship's Commanding Officer, Commander Montgomery M. Taylor, USN, is on the left.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105464

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

    One of the ship's divisions posing on the main deck in front of the pilot house during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.
    This division probably worked in this part of the ship. Note the Sailors inside the pilot house and the mascot, a bear cub, on a leash held by one of the division officers.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105468

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

    Sailors posing on one of the ship's steam launches during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.
    The launch has been run up on the beach. The group may be one of the divisions that operated the ship's numerous boats. It may also include some of the civilian personnel embarked on the expedition.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105469

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

    The ship's baseball team posing on the main deck near the stern during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 114KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     

    For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Buffalo (1898-1927, later AD-8)
  • USS Buffalo -- 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition (Part 1)
  • USS Buffalo -- 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition (Part 3)


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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