USS PENNSYLVANIA/PITTSBURGH (Armored Cruiser No. 4/CA 4)

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USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser No. 4) At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in January 1911, after she had been fitted with a temporary wooden deck in preparation for Eugene Ely‘s airplane landing attempt. Ely landed his Curtiss pusher biplane on board the ship on 18 January, the first airplane landing on a warship. The landing deck, 120 feet long and 30 feet wide, was inclined slightly to help slow the plane as it landed, and had a thirty-degree ramp at its after end.

First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands his Curtiss pusher biplane on USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser No. 4), anchored in San Francisco Bay, California. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks

USS Pittsburgh (CA 4) in a Mediterranean Port, circa 1923-1926. Panoramic photograph. Courtesy of Robert M. Ramsey, 1981.

USS Pittsburgh (CA 4) In the Wangpoo River, off Shanghai, China, circa 1927. Note the different elevations of the 8″/45 guns of her forward turret. Also note the missing forward stack, which was removed in 1926, making her unique within the class. Courtesy of Penland Dixon, 1983.

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