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Table 67.

Shot
BRAVO (B)

USS Bairoko ( CVE-115) operation
al activities during the CAS
TLE test series.

Time

Shot
Date

of
Det.

1 Mar

0645

Ship Location/Activities

Preshot

At Shot Time

28 February at 2307 underway
from Bikini to operating
area; 1 March at 0243 rendez-

voused with Philip (ODE-498)

when heavy fallout detected;
washdown system Operated from

0810-0931; firehoses used
after securing washdown SyStem; at 1800 a second fallout
began; firehoses continued in

use until 1845;

ROMEO (B)

27 Mar

0630

KOON (B}

7 Apr

0620

UNION (B)

26 Apr

0605

26 April at 2024 underway

NECTAR (E)

5 May

0610

14 May

0620

ing 124° from shot; from

0700-0710, washdown gear
operating, but no new fallout received

Steamed in the company of the
Epperson (DDE-719) in the
Operational area off Bikini

At 0620, 23 nmi (43 km) bearing 100° from shot

25 April at 1853 underway for

At 0605, 57 nmi (105 km)

Bikini operating area with

13 May at 1746 underway from

Atoll

Se eee Log.

to Bikini

bearing 1559 from shot

.

4 May at 1555 underway with
Renshaw (DDE-499) from Bikini
to assigned operating area

Kwajalein Atoll

*

steamed from

At 0630, 43 nmi (80 km) bear-

from Bikini Lagoon to oper-

Philip
YANKEE (B)

2 March decontamination effo
rts started
again after 0800 radiological
use of high-pressure hoses and monitoring;
scrubbing
carried on all day; 3 March
arrived Bikini,
launched helicapter radsafe surv
eys

from Bikini to Enewetak
ational area off Bikini

we
uw
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Postshot

At 0645, 38 nmi (70 km) bearing 132° from shot; at 0803
material condition Able set

At 0610, 34 nmi (63 km)
bearing 150° from shot: at
0625 set modified condition
Abie; between 0652-0702 washdown gear on
At 0620, steaming from Kwa-

jJalein to Bikini, 40 nmi

(74 km) SE of Eneu
eee

At approximately 0900 launched
two helicopters for initial radiological
survey;
at 1405 anchored in berth N-5,
Bikini;
28 March at 0859 after shifting
moored to
buoy T-2, Bikini; 29 March wash
down system
operated 0130-0215; reactivated
at 0320
At 1104 anchored in berth N-5,
Bikini

At 1611 anchored in berth N-5,
Bikini

At 1643 anchored in berth
N-6, Bikini

From 0912-1045 Philip alongsid
e to fuel;

at 1206 anchored in berth
N-3, Bikini; at

1701 underway for Enewetak
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