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Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/12/2005 7:44:26 PM

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/12/2005 7:48:47 PM

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USS Pensylvania

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/12/2005 7:49:01 PM

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

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/12/2005 8:02:35 PM

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18 JAN 1911 USS Pensylvania

Eugene B. Ely taking off later in the day.

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/12/2005 8:05:44 PM

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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.

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/12/2005 8:17:10 PM

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

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/ev-1910s/ev-1910/ely-birm.htm

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/12/2005 8:22:57 PM

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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.

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/12/2005 8:24:55 PM

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

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/12/2005 8:25:05 PM

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

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/12/2005 8:36:42 PM

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

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/13/2005 12:05:46 AM

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Nice picture!

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/13/2005 2:34:41 AM

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USS Pennsylvania 18 jan. 1911

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/13/2005 3:35:50 AM

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

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/ev-1910s/ev-1910/ely-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.

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/13/2005 8:21:34 AM

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RBWhite, that is the picture from which I took the date quess

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.

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/13/2005 4:22:10 PM

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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

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RE: Name This Unlimited...(63) - 9/13/2005 5:01:14 PM

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USS Pensylvania, it is

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