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Photo # NH 76511:  USS Roe lies in the background as Eugene Ely takes off from USS Birmingham, 14 November 1910

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USS Roe (Destroyer # 24, later DD-24), 1910-1934 --
Part II


This page features additional images related to USS Roe (Destroyer # 24, later DD-24).

For other views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Roe (Destroyer # 24, later DD-24), 1910-1934.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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    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.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 110KB; 535 x 765 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 134KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    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.

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     


    For other views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Roe (Destroyer # 24, later DD-24), 1910-1934.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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