Old Photo USS Niagara Aerial Survey Airplane Seaplane

Item: This listing is for (1) rare original photo of a man standing in front of one of the earliest seaplanes that was used for aerial survey and worked from the U.S.S. Niagara (which you can see the lettering in the photos). This particular photo was taken in Venezuela and was part of a conspiracy theory alleged by the Venezuelan Government, that the U.S. was spying by taking aerial photographs.

the United States has long played a prominent political and economic role in Zulia and throughout Venezuela. In 1926, the USS Niagara arrived in Zulia, and the U.S. consul requested that U.S. sailors be allowed to celebrate there. When an officer attached to the Niagara requested permission to fly over Zulia for the celebration, the states president, Perez Soto, grew suspicious.

Reports reached him that the real reason for the flight was to take aerial photographs. Perez Soto disallowed the disembarking of the crew and refused to authorize the flight. He believed the Unites States wanted to station the Niagara in Venezuelan waters "as a kind of sentinel of North American interests."

The pilot who had been hired for the job had been transferred to U.S.S. Niagara for the purpose of "mapping" the Gulf of Venezuela. He was forced to make plane base on an island inhabited by head-hunting "savages" i.e.natives.

Size: 2.50" x 3.50"
Condition: Very Good
Date: 1926
Location: Venezuela


LY - 0114

Keywords: Mapping Seaplane Airplane Biplane Gulf of Venezuela Venesuela

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