Bear (1908) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

[ggordon]

July 22, 1908
Bear has spent a couple of months patrolling the waters around Saint Paul Island, checking on those vessels engaged in seal hunting. We just stopped a Japanese vessel, the No. 2 Kuisei Maru. She ignored our short blasts from our steam whistle, so we put a shot from our forward 6 pdr across her bows.

The bearings, when she was stopped, were Right Tangent Northeast Point SWxW3/4W (Mag) and Right Tangent Walrus Island SE (Mag). With a magnetic declination of 14.75 degrees for 1908, her position is 57.25835 -170.01433. This puts her 2.8 miles from NE Point, and within the three mile limit.

What I find most pleasing is that Bear put her 2 3/8 miles off Northeast Point which, given the year, the state of the maps of the time and etc, I find very good, it being a difference of only 0.4 miles.

[ggordon]

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