Photo #: NH 77601
First airplane takeoff from a warship,
14 November 1910
Eugene B. Ely flies his Curtiss pusher airplane from USS Birmingham
(Scout Cruiser # 2), in Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the afternoon
of 14 November 1910.
USS Roe (Destroyer # 24), serving as plane guard, is visible
in the background.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 77563
First airplane takeoff from a warship,
14 November 1910
Eugene B. Ely flies his Curtiss pusher airplane off the deck
of USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2), in Hampton Roads,
Virginia, during the afternoon of 14 November 1910.
USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) is visible beyond Birmingham's
bow, acting as plane guard.
Note that Birmingham's anchor is in the process of being
hoisted.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 76511
First airplane takeoff from a warship,
14 November 1910
Eugene B. Ely takes his Curtiss pusher airplane off from the
deck of USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2), in Hampton
Roads, Virginia, during the afternoon of 14 November 1910.
USS Roe (Destroyer # 24), serving as plane guard, is visible
in the background.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 77555
Eugene B. Ely
On board USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) on 14 November 1910,
shortly after his flight off the deck of USS Birmingham
(Scout Cruiser # 2). This was the first airplane takeoff from
a warship.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41760
USS Roe (Destroyer # 24), at right
Taking on oil from USS Warrington (Destroyer # 30), at
sea off the coast of Brest, France, 1 June 1918.
Note Warrington's pattern camouflage.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41894
USS President Lincoln (1917-1918)
"All that was left of the ship": Life rafts and boats
adrift in the Bay of Biscay about two weeks after the ship was
sunk. President Lincoln was torpedoed by the German submarine
U-90 on 31 May 1918.
Note: A hand-written inscription on an original print
of this image in the Naval Historical Foundation's USS President
Lincoln collection identifies it as having been taken from
USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) on 1 June 1918, the day after
President Lincoln was sunk.
Courtesy of Captain Percy Foote, USN, 1931.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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