USS Birmingham (CS-2) Running sea trials in March 1908. She is flying the flag of her builder, the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Massachusetts, from her mainmast.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 56390.

USS Birmingham (CS-2) Underway in 1908, possibly during trials.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 56392.

USS Birmingham (CS-2) Dressed with flags while at anchor, circa 1909. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 101517.

A floating crane lifts Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane onto USS Birmingham (CS-2), at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77549.

A floating crane places Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on board USS Birmingham (CS-2). Photographed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77550.

Sailors and civilians crowd around Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane as a floating crane places it on board USS Birmingham (CS-2). Photographed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77562.

Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on the takeoff platform of USS Birmingham (CS-2), just after it was hoisted aboard by a floating crane. Photograph taken at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98131.

Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane rests on the flying-off platform built over the foredeck of USS Birmingham (CS-2). Photograph taken at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight. The floating crane that had lifted the airplane onto the ship is visible at the extreme left. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77551.

USS Birmingham (CS-2) steams downriver from the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, with Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on board, at about midday on 14 November 1910. Ely and his plane made their historic flight later that afternoon. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77554.

USS Birmingham (CS-2) bound for Hampton Roads, after leaving the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, with Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on board, 14 November 1910. Ely took his plane off from Birmingham later that afternoon.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 1831.

Eugene B. Ely flies his Curtiss pusher airplane off the deck of USS Birmingham (CS-2), in Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the afternoon of 14 November 1910. USS Roe (DD-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 #NH 77563.

Eugene B. Ely takes his Curtiss pusher airplane off from the deck of USS Birmingham (CS-2), in Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the afternoon of 14 November 1910. USS Roe (DD-24), serving as plane guard, is visible in the background. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 76511.

The flag-draped caskets of the victims of the USS Maine explosion are brought ashore at the Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia, from USS Birmingham (CS-2), 23 March 1912.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 1690.

USS Birmingham (CS-2) during the 1912 Naval Review.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 61899.

USS Birmingham (CS-2) In Brest harbor, France, on 15 October 1918. During 1917-1918 she was flagship of U.S. Forces at Gibraltar and escorted convoys in the eastern Atlantic. Note her "dazzle" camouflage. Courtesy of John G. Krieger, 1966-1967.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 56393.

USS Birmingham (CS-2) Moored in a harbor, circa 1918, probably in the Mediterranean area. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 68227.

USS Birmingham (CS-2) At Boston, Massachusetts, 20 February 1919. Photographed by J. Crosby, Naval Photographer, 11 Portland St., Boston, Mass. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Crosby Collection.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 98132.

USS Birmingham (CS-2) In the Middle West Chamber, Gatun Locks, during the passage of the Pacific Fleet through the Panama Canal, 24 July 1919. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Admiral William V. Pratt.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 75717.

USS Birmingham (CS-2) At Seattle, Washington, in September 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 56394.

USS Birmingham (CS-2) At anchor in San Diego Harbor, California, circa late 1919 or early 1920, when she was flagship of Destroyer Squadron Four. Note the pair of World War I "Overseas Service" chevrons painted on her forward smokestack.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 102784-B.

USS Birmingham (CL-2) Leading destroyers out of a West Coast harbor (probably San Diego), circa 1919-1922. The ships directly behind her are USS Twiggs (DD-127) and USS Chauncey (DD-296). Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1979.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 69510.