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Table 36.
Summary of the status of transient shipping in the Pacific
Proving Ground on or about 7 April 1954.
Location/Course
Vessel
USS Reclaimer (ARS-42)
10945'N, 168°F, course 270, 10 knots (18.5 km)
at 1200 on 6 April; diverted to Kwajalein, ETA
0700, 7 April
LST-1146
9935'N, 196°E, course 94, 9 knots (16.7 km/hr) at
1200 on 6 April; at 1400 on 6 April altered
course to 53; at 0110 on 7 April altered course
ta 90
/SS Unadilla (ATA-182)
7920'N, 169930'E, course 117, 10 knots (18.5 km)
at 1200 on 6 April; at 1530 on 6 April altered
course to 94
JSS Hanna (DE-449)
JSNS Gen Morton
At Matalanim Island at 1200 on 6 April, thence
to Ponape
20937'N, 176912'E, course 267, 15.8 knots (29.2
(T-AP=
km/hr) at 1200 on 6 April
USS Karin (AF-33)
At Enewetak at 1200 on 6 April
USNS Barrett (T-AP-196)
20918'N, 169940'E, course 87, 15.8 knots (29.2
Japanese fishing boat
Visual/radar contact by search aircraft, 19928'N,
171956'E, course 125, 8 knots (14.8 km/hr) at
approximately 1730 on 5 April; subsequent visual/
radar contact by search aircraft at approximately
1800 on 6 April, 18915'N, 172°11'E, course 100,
6 knots (11.1 km/hr), evaluated as same vessel
Japanese fishing boat
Visual/radar contact by search aircraft, 19°N,
km/hr) at 1200 on 6 April
171932'E, course 315, 10 knots (18.5 km/hr) at
approximately 1730, 5 April
Japanese fishing boat
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Visual/radar contact by search aircraft, 15°1'N,
169931E, course 335, 6 knots (11.1 km/hr) at approximately 1600, 6 April; subsequent visual/
radar contact by search aircraft at approxi-
mately 1900, 6 April, 15925'N, 169921'E, course
340, 7 knots (13 km/hr), evaluated as same vessel
M/V Gunners Knot
Truk at 1200, 6 April
M/V_ Roque
Nukuoro at 1320, 6 April, scheduled to Kapingamarangi and return to Ponape by 10 April
Source:
Reference 16.
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