https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pennsylvania_(ACR-4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pennsylvania_(ACR-4) "On 18 January 1911, a plane flown by Eugene Ely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pennsylvania_(ACR-4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pennsylvania_(ACR-4) "On 18 January 1911, a plane flown by Eugene Ely from the Tanforan airfield in San Bruno, California landed on a platform constructed on her afterdeck. This was the first successful aircraft landing on a ship, and the first using a tailhook apparatus, thus opening the era of naval aviation and aircraft carriers."