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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:44 pm
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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:48 pm
USS Pensylvania
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:49 pm
That would be Eugene Ely in his plane taking off from the USS Birmingham in 1910.
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:02 pm
18 JAN 1911 USS Pensylvania
Eugene B. Ely taking off later in the day.
Eugene B. Ely taking off later in the day.
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:05 pm
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.
<edit>: damn, I was wrong. It really is Pennsylvania on 18.1.1911.
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:17 pm
That can't be the Pennsylvania. It's got four smokestacks.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/even ... y-birm.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/even ... y-birm.htm
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:22 pm
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.
USS Birmingham was a smaller Scout Cruiser, allthough it also had 4 funnels.
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:24 pm
It is Pennsylvania. The masts and the casemat guns give her away.
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:25 pm
You're right. Found another picture of her; I just thought she seemed a bit slender for the Pennsylvania, but that's definitely her.
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:36 pm
I'd say the other 4-stacker is USS California / San Diego. Again from the funnell marking and appearance.
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:05 pm
Nice picture! [:)]
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:34 pm
USS Pennsylvania 18 jan. 1911
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:35 am
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.
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:21 am
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.
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:22 pm
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
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
RE: Name This Unlimited...(63)
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:01 pm
USS Pensylvania, it is[:)]