[fso301]

U.S.A.: Coast Guard manned Army vessel FS-178 was commissioned. On 1 August 1945, she had finished discharging a cargo of chemical warfare equipment from Morotai, and was ordered dry-docked in ARD-9, Humboldt Bay, Hollandia, New Guinea, to clean and paint the hull. She departed drydock on the 3rd and on the 8th was underway for Milne Bay, New Guinea, where she arrived on the 12th and loaded 39 tons of life rafts for Finschaven and Hollandia arriving at the former place on the 14th to discharge 20 rafts and pick up mail and at the latter place on the 18th to unload the remainder before anchoring until the 28th at Challenge Cove, Hollandia. On that date she received a cargo of mail for Biak and proceeded there independently arriving at Sorido Lagoon on the 30th to discharge mail and load ammunition for Zamboanga, Philippine Islands. She departed next morning for Zamboanga, Philippine Islands.

Isn't it a bit far and dangerous for a little inter-islands steamer to be sailing to the Philippines?

[Tax-chick]

Anoreth went across the Pacific on a little Coast Guard ship.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Isn't it a bit far and dangerous for a little inter-islands steamer to be sailing to the Philippines?

At this stage in the war I would think it a bit dangerous for a carrier task force with BB escort to sail to the Philippines.

[Ecliptic]

Re:US Coast Guard Vessel ....The War was over on the 15th of August 1945. So, going to the Philippines on August 30, 1945 is no big deal.

[Ecliptic]

Re: Coast Guard Ship...It was commissioned in May of 1944, but the trip log printed here was for August “1945”... not 1944.