At 1944, she sighted the first of the Navy seaplanes, the NC-3, approach the harbor on the first leg of the transatlantic flight.
By 1927 a large hangar had been built on Olds Bay at the southern tip of the island for use by Navy seaplanes.
She put into Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 4th and stood out again five days later to guard for the Navy seaplanes' flight to Newfoundland.
Here she served on a weather station and observed the flight of Navy seaplanes in the historic first aerial crossing of the Atlantic.
Navy seaplanes were located on Stumholmen from 1914 to 1949.
She steamed to the Azores to take weather observations for Navy seaplanes that were to make the first aerial crossing the Atlantic.
Imperial German Navy seaplanes 463 to 466 were a unique seaplane design produced for the Navy's flying service during the First World War.
FOR the Grumman Corporation, it all started in a small rented garage in Baldwin, building floats for Navy seaplanes.
Imperial German Navy seaplanes 461 and 462 were the only two examples of a seaplane design produced for the Navy's flying service during the First World War.
In May 1919, Ericsson sailed to the Azores to observe and support the historic first aerial crossing of the Atlantic, made by Navy seaplanes.