Prepared by Richard Crossin 
SMITHSONIAN GRID Survey No. 2h 
CRUISE REPORT 
August 196$ 
I. Cruise period: 2-26 August 
II. Cruise vessel: U.S.N.S. SHEAKWAltA (T-AG 177) 
III. Personnel: Richard Crossin (Biologist in charge), Kenneth Amerman, 
Dayle Husted, Brian Harrington, Jeff Tordoff. 
Itinerary 
2 August - departed Honolulu 0910 
I: August - arrived Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals to put 
two-man party and equipment ashore 0655 
I) August - departed Tern Island 0810 
5 August - arrived Lays an Island; put party ashore 1530 
12 August - departed Laysan 2100; boarded ship 
16 August - arrived Smithsonian Grid; began observations 0 05 
21 August - departed Grid; diurnal observations ended «W> 
22 August - arrived Johnston Island, put crew member of SHEARWATER 
ASHORE 1330 
26 August - arrived Honolulu 0750 
Pelagic Work Outside Grid 
^ ° & Diurnai a observations of birds began shortly after departing Honolulu on 
2 August and were continued until 1312 on 5 August when Laysan was reached. 
A brief stop was made early in the morning of U August r * & 
pu^frLTaS Huber aehoL * tot*, of WS »iles and U.3 boura were gvered 
during these observations; 8,176 birds of 20 species were noted. Collecting 
attempts were made only for selected species. None was collected other than a 
Red-tailed Tropicbird which came aboard ship. 
