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The U.S. Lines merchant ship SS Pioneer Muse, background, and the Lebanase merchant ship SS Sheik foundered on Kitadaitōjima. SS Pioneer Muse stranded during Typhoon Violet in October 1961. The crew of 57 was rescued by the attack cargo ship USS Tulare (AKA-112) and the helicopter carrier USS Princeton (LPH-5) on 8 October 1961, together with 27 crew from the 7.300 ton Lebanase merchant ship SS Sheik which had stranded a week before Pioneer Muse during Typhoon Tilda.

Kitadaitōjima is the northernmost island in the Daitō Islands group, located in the Philippine Sea southeast of Okinawa, Japan. After World War II, the island was occupied by the United States. The use of increased mechanization increased phosphate yields marginally until the deposits were exhausted by the mid-1950s. The island was uninhabited at the time of the shipwrecks until it was returned to Japan in 1972.
Date circa 1961
date QS:P,+1961-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine December 1961, p. 20.
Author U.S. Navy
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(Reusing this file)		 "All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise designated."
Camera location25° 57′ 04.86″ N, 131° 19′ 25.14″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.

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25°57'4.86"N, 131°19'25.14"E

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