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The second USS Pennsylvania (ACR/CA-4), also referred to as Armored Cruiser No. 4, and later renamed Pittsburgh, was a United States Navy armored cruiser, the lead ship of her class. She was originally assigned the name Nebraska but was renamed Pennsylvania on 7 March 1901.
Two months later, on January 18, 1911, Ely landed his Curtiss Pusher airplane on a platform on the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay. [nb 2] Ely flew from the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno, California, and landed on the Pennsylvania, which was the first successful shipboard landing of an aircraft.
On November 14, 1910, Eugene Ely took off from USS Birmingham in a Model D. This was the first time an aircraft had taken off from a ship. [4] On January 18, 1911, Ely landed a Model D aboard USS Pennsylvania. This was the first aircraft to land on a ship.
USS South Dakota with a cage foremast, circa 1911–1916. The Pennsylvania class of six armored cruisers served in the United States Navy from 1905 to 1927. All six were renamed for cities 1912–1920, to make the state names available for the new battleships beginning with the Pennsylvania-class battleships.
Scope and content: The Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser 4), renamed the Pittsburgh in 1912. Starboard stern quarter with Eugene P. Ely landing plane on flight deck. Starboard stern quarter with Eugene P. Ely landing plane on flight deck.
USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4) was the lead ship of the Pennsylvania-class cruiser launched in 1903; renamed Pittsburgh in 1912; scrapped in 1931; USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was the lead ship of the Pennsylvania-class battleship launched in 1915 and sunk in 1948, after atomic bomb testing in 1946; USS Pennsylvania (SSBN-735) is an Ohio-class submarine ...
January 18 – Eugene Burton Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship. January 30 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first aeroplane rescue at sea, saving the life of John McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
On 18 January 1911, he became the first pilot to land on a stationary ship. He took off from the Tanforan racetrack and landed on a similar temporary structure on the aft of USS Pennsylvania anchored at the San Francisco waterfront—the improvised braking system of sandbags and ropes led directly to the arrestor hook and wires described below ...