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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1955Vol. XXVI, No.5

Another Jap Ship Wrecke[?]

p. 156 · Read in the full issue

(From Our Own Correspondent) WRECKS of Japanese flshim vessels are beginning to decora! a lot of Pacific reefs.

The Yuyo Maru piled up oo Erderbury Island reef on October 2 and later broke in two.

Nasamitu Nogriti, master of tH vessel, was proceeding on a north easterly course and had figured li was past Enderbury Island am made a change to the northwes which resulted in his wrecking th ship on the island. Radio calls fo' help brought two sister ships tti following morning, but their aj tempts to free the ship only helps break her up.

The crew were removed with n casualties or injuries and we:; brought to Pago Pago on OctobK 27. The ship was 53 feet in lengt: with a 13-ft beam and 4-foot drat She first came to Pago Pago Jui 17, 1955, with a crew of 20 men..

A Japanese Fisheries Trainin vessel, the Fuji Maru, arrived Pago Pago on October 24, havir cleared from Shimizu, Japan, o October 1. The ship’s crew of men are being trained for dutii as fishing masters and sea captai:i of future fishing vessels. They s wore cadet type caps and w© obviously a high type of Japan© youth.

The ship was extremely nes: painted white with a 104.10 lengt beam 20.8 and draft 10.4, gro tonnage 191.44 and net 112.55 tor Captain Takeshi Tukagoshi, aged : commanded the ship, which cb parted October 28.

U Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Isom and MI Isom, of the Melanesian Missioj BSIP. returned there on October