C-5 underway during the Naval Review in New York City, October 4, 1912. A temporary pipe frame and canvas bridge has been erected on the aft end of the conning tower fairwater. It would be disassembled and taken below before diving. Likewise, the tall radio mast forward would be taken below. It was likely rigged so that C-5 could communicate with the fleet commander during the review.
U.S. Navy photo
C-5, under the command of LT Percy Talmage Wright, underway in the approaches to the Panama Canal on February 19, 1918. A Quartermaster is standing on the top of the periscope shears, signaling with semaphore flags. Like the photo above, a temporary bridge structure has been erected aft of the fairwater.
Photo courtesy of the Massachusetts Digital Commonwealth, Nathaniel Stebbins Collection.
