Search by the Yankee
The Yankee claimed that its reason for sailing through the Gilbert and Ellice Islands was to collect evidence about Earhart and Noonan. The Western Pacific High Commission thought other motives may have been at work.
The captain took part of the HMS Bounty's rudder and was thought to have illegally collected other artifacts from natives.
7 July 1941: The rudder of the HMS Bounty was been located on Pitcairn and was shipped to Suva. Now in the Fiji Museum?