Mysteries Of The Lost Lighter & The Ghost Submarine

SAT 30 JUN 1945
Naval vessels on hand (all types)--67,952. Personnel: Navy--3,383,196; Marine Corps--476,709; Coast Guard--171,192. Total personnel--4,031,097.
Pacific
Open lighter YC-1272, beached on south side of Cerritos Channel, San Pedro, California, is lost during June (date indeterminate).

PB4Y-2s (VPB 118), flying from Okinawa, continue aerial mining of waters of Korean archipelago, sowing mines in fields off the south central coast.

Off Balikpapan, Borneo, destroyer Smith (DD-378) is damaged by shore battery, 01°17'S, 116°53'E; minesweeper YMS-314 by mine, 01°18'S, 116°51'E.

Submarines Baya (SS-318) and Capitaine (SS-336) attack Japanese Makassar-to-Surabaya convoy MASU-705, engaging the escorting submarine chaser Ch 5 and sinking cargo vessel Bandai Maru, 06°27'S, 117°13'E.

Japanese army cargo ship Hokushin Maru is lost to unknown cause in South China Sea, about 15°00'N, 115°00'E.*

Japanese merchant cargo ship No.1 Ryuho Maru is sunk by aircraft, 35°01'N, 140°10'E.

Mines damage Japanese escort destroyer Nara, six miles west-southwest of Shimonoseki, Japan, 33°54'N, 130°49'E, Coast Defense Vessel No.154, 2.8 kilometers off Hesaki light, and merchant cargo ships Chikuma Maru, 15 kilometers off Himejima, Taruyasu Maru, 37°07'N, 137°04'E, and Taisei Maru, 35°00'N, 133°00'E.

Japanese Coast Defense Vessel No.215 is damaged 2.8 kilometers off Iwasaki.

Japanese merchant cargo ship No.1 Taiyu Maru is damaged by aircraft, Moji harbor.

Open lighter YC-1272, beached on south side of Cerritos Channel, San Pedro, California, is lost during June (date indeterminate).

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*Probable agent of destruction is submarine Lagarto which is assigned to patrol the South China Sea at that time. Lagarto does not return from her war patrol.

This is odd, as the Lagarto is alleged to have been sunk 3 May 1945.