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The Yankee | The ''Yankee'' was "a North Sea pilot ship and schooner rigged" owned and skippered by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Johnson Irving Johnson,] who was quite renowned in the yachting community. | ||
The | The WPHC had an entire file on the Yankee. Permission was requested, and granted, to visit the Gilberts for the purpose of searching for Amelia Earhart. On September 14, 1940, Jack Barley, the Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony reported to his boss Sir Harry Luke, the High Commissioner, with the dates that the Yankee had visited various islands within the colony. There is no mention of the yacht calling at any island of the Phoenix Group. According to Barley, the ships compliment was 19 and all were U.S. citizens. Barley concludes his report with this paragraph: | ||
7 July 1941: The rudder of the HMS Bounty was | ::"All my sources of information state that the activities of the party appeared to be only those of ordinary tourists -- bathing, sightseeing and fishing. Mention of Mrs. Putnam was made on one or two occasions, but the 'search' was purely incidental to the voyage. Personally I incline to view that the question of Mrs. Putnam's disappearance was linked to the Yankee's voyage very largely in order to ensure publicity for Captain Johnson who, as Your Excellency will be aware, runs these voyages on a profit-making basis." | ||
The captain took part of the HMS Bounty's rudder and was thought to have illegally collected other artifacts from natives [[WPHC Archives]]. | |||
7 July 1941: The rudder of the HMS Bounty was located on Pitcairn and was shipped to Suva. Now in the Fiji Museum? | |||
Revision as of 01:07, 19 February 2009
The Yankee was "a North Sea pilot ship and schooner rigged" owned and skippered by Irving Johnson, who was quite renowned in the yachting community.
The WPHC had an entire file on the Yankee. Permission was requested, and granted, to visit the Gilberts for the purpose of searching for Amelia Earhart. On September 14, 1940, Jack Barley, the Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony reported to his boss Sir Harry Luke, the High Commissioner, with the dates that the Yankee had visited various islands within the colony. There is no mention of the yacht calling at any island of the Phoenix Group. According to Barley, the ships compliment was 19 and all were U.S. citizens. Barley concludes his report with this paragraph:
- "All my sources of information state that the activities of the party appeared to be only those of ordinary tourists -- bathing, sightseeing and fishing. Mention of Mrs. Putnam was made on one or two occasions, but the 'search' was purely incidental to the voyage. Personally I incline to view that the question of Mrs. Putnam's disappearance was linked to the Yankee's voyage very largely in order to ensure publicity for Captain Johnson who, as Your Excellency will be aware, runs these voyages on a profit-making basis."
The captain took part of the HMS Bounty's rudder and was thought to have illegally collected other artifacts from natives WPHC Archives.
7 July 1941: The rudder of the HMS Bounty was located on Pitcairn and was shipped to Suva. Now in the Fiji Museum?