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[Brady]

???

[JTGEN]

USS Pensylvania

[Terminus]

That would be Eugene Ely in his plane taking off from the USS Birmingham in 1910.

[JTGEN]

18 JAN 1911 USS Pensylvania

Eugene B. Ely taking off later in the day.

[Martti]

Concur. Eugene Ely on 14.11.1910 performing the first-ever successful shipboard take-off from CS-2 Birmingham.

<edit>: damn, I was wrong. It really is Pennsylvania on 18.1.1911.

[Terminus]

That can't be the Pennsylvania. It's got four smokestacks.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/even ... y-birm.htm

[JTGEN]

The ship in the picture has the flight deck installed at the rear of the deck. In Birmingham it was at the bow. The funnell marking would also sugest it is USS Pensylvania.

USS Birmingham was a smaller Scout Cruiser, allthough it also had 4 funnels.

[Martti]

It is Pennsylvania. The masts and the casemat guns give her away.

[Terminus]

You're right. Found another picture of her; I just thought she seemed a bit slender for the Pennsylvania, but that's definitely her.

[JTGEN]

I'd say the other 4-stacker is USS California / San Diego. Again from the funnell marking and appearance.

[stevemk1a]

Nice picture! [:)]

[RBWhite]

USS Pennsylvania 18 jan. 1911

[Tankerace]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

That can't be the Pennsylvania. It's got four smokestacks.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/even ... y-birm.htm

The top of the line US ACR's, AC #4-13, all had 4 stacks. Those surviving units in the 1920's had them cut to three. It seems the US loved smokestacks.... 4 stack destroyers, 4 stack cruisers, 7 stacked battle cruisers.

[JTGEN]

RBWhite, that is the picture from which I took the date quess[8D] I'd say the small ship in the left is on both pictures. On the latter picture the plane is landing and the ship has some extra 'cushions' at the deck.

[RBWhite]

USS Pennsylvania 18 Jan. 1911

When he took off he had a clear flight.

Looking at the picture of the return flight and landing there appears to be some type of cusioning material along both sides of the flight deck.

My own thought would be bails of hay to limit damage to the planes wings if he didn't come in to level

[Brady]

USS Pensylvania, it is[:)]