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	Apra Harbor
		Guam's port is a major transshipment center of the Western Pacific and is equipped to move containerized, unitized, break-bulk, and tuna cargo efficiently.
		Apra Harbor is an improved, natural basin that consists of an Outer Harbor and an Inner Harbor.
		It was towed to Guam for use at the privatized Guam Shipyard at Apra Harbor.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/apra.htm (2576 words)

	Apra Harbor - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Apra Harbor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Town in west Guam, and unincorporated territory of the USA; population (1990 est) 8,000.
		Its large protected harbour is also the centre of Guam's maritime commerce.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Apra+Harbor (121 words)

	Guam
		Guam is the southernmost and largest island in the Mariana Archipelago with a total land area of approximately 212 square miles.
		Guam is approximately 30 miles long, stretching from Ritidian Point in the north to the village of Merizo in the south.
		A close scientific examination of Guam reveals four main physical divisions to the island: the northern limestone plateau, the dissected volcanic plateau in the south, the south-central basin area and the fringing reef areas of the coastal lowlands.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/guam.htm (3623 words)

	guam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Apra harbor on the Pacific Ocean island of Guam is known for it's variety of marine activity including wreck diving.
		As she was approaching the entrance to the harbor at Apra, Guam she went off course.
		As QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 sails into Apra harbor on February 27 it is probably fitting to remember two of her maritime ancestors.
	www.worldshipny.com /guam.htm (544 words)

	Guam - Micronesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guam is the closet U.S. territory to Taiwan as well as the crossroads of all travel to Micronesia's outer islands.
		Apra Harbor is gigantic - several miles long and reaches depths in excess of 150 feet.
		In addition to the wrecks, Apra Harbor offers numerous opportunities to dive shallow and deep coral reefs that are loaded with exotic marine life.
	www.aquanautes.com /micronesie/guam.a.html (434 words)

	U.S. Navy - Images of Aircraft Carriers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Apra Harbor, Guam, Apr. 18, 2000 — USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) is pier side in Apra Harbor, Guam.
		The carrier is in Guam for a three-day port visit as part of a scheduled two-month deployment to the western Pacific.
		Apra Harbor, Guam, Apr. 17, 2000 — USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) is assisted by tugs as she approaches her berth at Apra Harbor, Guam.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/images/image-cv16.html (391 words)

	Typhoon Havens Handbook for the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans (U) UNCLASSIFIED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guam lies within a broad area considered to be the normal breeding ground for tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific Ocean.
		Apra Harbor's location on the west side of Guam protects it from the worst effects of storm surge from storms moving from east to west, the most common movement.
		Low-lying areas of Guam are at risk from inundation due to storm surge during the passage of severe tropical cyclones near the island.
	pao.cnmoc.navy.mil /pao/Heavyweather/thh_nc/guam/apra/text/sect6.htm (3751 words)

	Main (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guam is America’s gateway to the Western Pacific and the crossroads of all travel to Micronesia’s outer islands.
		Guam’s Apra Harbor is the only place in the world where divers can truly dive a shipwreck from World War I and a shipwreck from World War II on one tank of air.
		The second shipwreck in Apra Harbor is the Tokai Maru, a 464 foot World War II Japanese tanker.
	www.trip-n-tour.com /micronesia_2003/main_guam.htm (342 words)

	Guam
		There were classrooms and instructors for the furthering of ones personal education and class instruction for the improvement and the advancemnent of personnel with their military skills.
		Guam also had its own radio station, WXLI, which was operated by military personnel.
		On 13 June 1945, the rear echelon of 33 officers and 277 enlisted personnel arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, disembarked and went to the MAG-21 living quarters designated for them along side of those of the men of the forward echelon.
	www.usmarinecorpsvmd-354.com /guam.html (365 words)

	USS City of Corpus Christi arrives in Guam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With the help of a local talk radio station, one spouse was able to speak to her husband on the submarine as it was pulling in, and many spouses were able to talk to relatives in the mainland United States.
		After the submarine passed the harbor’s breakwater, it was decorated with a 60-ft lei made by the crew’s wives.
		Four bed sheets with their children’s handprints in paint were also hung on the dry dock in the harbor across from the arrival pier.
	www.c7f.navy.mil /news/2002/10/9.htm (650 words)

	Guam
		Guam is one of the major islands in the Marinas Group.
		Guam was liberated by the US Marine 3rd Amphibious Corps on July 21, 1944 after a 13 day pre-invasion bombardment.
		As of June 1, 1944, Japanese air strength on Guam consisted of 100 Zeros and 10 J1N1 Irvings (night fighters) at Airfield #1 and 60 Ginga (bombers) at Airfield #2.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/marianas_guam.html (1366 words)

	CAAB - USS Houston to make Guam its homeport in 2004 - 17/3/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		GUAM — The third fast-attack submarine to make Guam’s Apra Harbor its home has surfaced.
		The USS City of Corpus Christi arrived on Guam in October 2002, followed later that year by the USS San Francisco.
		It moved to Guam in 1964 and was dissolved in 1981.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /caab/articles/guam2.htm (233 words)

	USS City of Corpus Christi Completes First Deployment from Guam
		031223-N-3996A-004 Apra Harbor, Guam (Dec. 23, 2003) -- Sailors assigned to the Los Angeles Class attack submarine USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) wave to family and friends who wait on the pier as the submarine returns home from deployment.
		The submarine was the first of three Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarines to be homeported in Guam as part of Submarine Squadron 15 and the first to deploy to the western Pacific from Guam.
		Guam’s location in the western Pacific significantly reduces distance and transit times, and increases time to perform missions in forward deployment areas, effectively doubling the days they are available for operations, compared to submarines homeported in Hawaii or California.
	www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=11238 (394 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Wharf Improvements and Fill at ...
		Under a Federal grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration, the Port Authority of Guam is proposing modifications to Apra Harbor for the purpose of improving maritime access and services to the island of Guam.
		The harbor is in need of improvements to meet anticipated future demands of the island's commercial port operations by providing additional cargo container storage area, and berthing facilities capable of accommodating the newest generation of large deep draft container vessels, and cruise ships.
		The harbor is located near the center of the western coast of Guam.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2005/February/Day-02/i1914.htm (627 words)

	USS San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guam time, about four minutes after diving, the San Francisco crashed head-on into a nearly vertical wall of stone, a seamount that was not on the charts.
		When a medical team arrived from Guam via helicopter the next morning, a surgeon, an undersea medical officer and another independent duty corpsmen remarked that the care given to the injured crewmen was outstanding, particularly considering the circumstances.
		On Monday afternoon, family members lined Sierra Pier at the Guam submarine base, where they waited anxiously for their first sight of the submarine they were assured would be berthed at the pier before long.
	www.barbase.org /uss_san_fran.htm (2533 words)

	Guam Post
		HAGATNA, Guam - A nuclear submarine that ran aground about 350 miles south of Guam, killing one crewman and injuring 23 others, reached its home port of Apra Harbor, Guam, on Monday, according to a Navy spokesm...
		HONOLULU -- A nuclear submarine that ran aground about 350 miles south of Guam, killing one crewman and injuring 23 others, was due back at its home port in Guam today, a Navy spokesman said.
		In this photo released by the US Navy the attack submarine USS San Francisco (SSN 711) is escorted by two harbor tugs returns to Apra Harbor, Guam, after a five-month deployment June 4, 2004.
	archive.wn.com /2005/01/10/1400/guampost (906 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She reached Pearl Harbor on 6 June and remained there until the 30th when she sailed, via Eniwetok, for the island of Guam.
		On 20 November, she departed Guam to escort a convoy of LCTs to sea for a rendezvous with Forster(DE--334).
		Returning to Apra Harbor on the 26th, PC--1569 remained there until 1 December when she got underway for Marcus Island which she visited from 4 to 18 December.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/patrol/pc1569.htm (670 words)

	Lipan
		When the invasion of Guam was postponed by the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the ship joined Service Squadron 10 at Eniwetok 3 July supporting the invasion of Saipan.
		After overhaul Lipan departed for Okinawa 24 February dropped fuel barges at Pearl Harbor and Guam, and arrived 1 May. Three days later, as the Japanese intensified the suicide attacks in a costly but futile campaign to hold Okinawa, the tug undertook salvage and firefighting duties.
		Based at Pearl Harbor from 1954 on, the tug has continned, into 1969, to meet the towing and salvage needs of the Pacific Fleet from the west coast to the western Pacific.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/l7/lipan.htm (932 words)

	CAAB - Second sub makes Guam its new home - 21/12/02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Before arriving in Guam, the San Francisco trained in an underwater tracking range off Southern California with a submarine preparing to deploy to the Middle East, Mulloy said.
		Guam and the rest of the world “need to know that the San Francisco is here and combat ready,” he said.
		The move to Guam could double the mission days for the submarines without the need to cross the Pacific Ocean.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /caab/articles/guamsub.htm (662 words)

	Guam Land Use Plan GLUP '94
		Outer Apra Harbor lies northeast of the property and Inner Apra Harbor lies southwest.
		The New Apra Heights (N15) property, covering 102 acres of undeveloped land, is found in the southern region municipality of Santa Rita.
		The property is bounded on the north by the Apra Harbor Naval Complex; on the east by Shoreline Drive (Route 2) and the Public Works Center Guam landfill; on the south by The War in the Pacific National Historical Park; and on the west by Agat Bay.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/guam-gulp94.htm (1954 words)

	Apra Harbor, Naval Station, Commercial Port (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This view of Apra Harbor gives a perspective that is rarely seen.
		Apra Harbor is said to be the largest, natural, deep-water harbor in the Pacific.
		One of his best jokes was that the mountains on Guam were made out of beer cans.
	photo.guam.net /mitchellpwarner/image-1764.html (283 words)

	U.S. Flag Pacific Island Coastal Management Leadership Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To improve characterization of fish in Apra Harbor contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) by analyzing reef fish caught from the area.
		Gab Gab Beach is a recreational beach and reef area in outer Apra Harbor in Guam.
		Gary Denton, from the University of Guam, collected limited sediment and tissue samples at the northern end of the outer harbor, where there is mixed commercial and military use, but no sediment or biota from the southern end (where Gab Gab lies), which is exclusively Navy operations.
	www.csc.noaa.gov /psc/project_pages/apraharbor.html (591 words)

	Tenders - USS Proteus AS 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Arriving Apra Harbor 29 November 1964, she established the third overseas replenishment site for the Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines - her first SSBN customer in the Pacific was the Daniel Boone.
		She continued to operate at Apra Harbor and in the Pacific for the next seven years, taking a five-month time off for self-overhaul in 1968 - relieved by Hunley (AS-31).
		Following return to Guam on 3 April, Proteus hosted the first western Pacific Trident SSBN refit and crew exchange when the USS Georgia (SSBN 729) moored alongside in outer Apra Harbor from 30 April to 10 May, 1986.
	www.mississippi.net /~comcents/tendertale.com/tenders/119/119.html (2726 words)

	Saturday, February 24, 2001
		APRA HARBOR, Guam — A Naval submarine squadron was re-established here Friday almost 20 years after it was deactivated.
		The island is a great location that gives quick and easy operational access to the entire region, and Apra Harbor has world-class facilities that required no upgrading, he said.
		Corpus, who served as Krol’s chief of staff before assuming command of Squadron FIFTEEN, said Guam has outstanding facilities for family support, which is very important considering submarine sailors can spend half the year at sea.
	ww2.pstripes.osd.mil /01/feb01/ed022401j.html (347 words)

	Oceania Regional Response Team: Published Reports
		Typhoon CHATA’AN hit the island of Guam with sustained winds of 130 KTS causing major damage and the sinking numerous small water craft, fishing vessels and the USS BARGE SWOB 286 which spilled 112K gallons of waste oil/water mixture (primarily diesel) into Apra Harbor.
		Once pulled free of the reef and before it could be towed to a designated disposal area the vessel sunk and had to be cut free of the tow at 1.5 NM SSE of Diamond Head in 300 feet of water.
		Super Typhoon PONGSONA hit Guam with sustained winds of 160 KTS causing major damage to the commercial port in Apra Harbor and causing a major fire at the Mobile tank farm.
	www.nrt.org /production/NRT/RRTHome.nsf/AllPages/rrt_oceania_annualreports.htm (1425 words)

	Archives: Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A memorial service was held aboard the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Peleliu in Apra Harbor yesterday, and more than 2,100 servicemen gathered to pay their respects to Cpl. Adam Lipford.
		It is in that vein that she is attempting to deal with the death of her only child, 22-year-old Marine Cpl. Adam Lipford, who drowned Tuesday when the tank he was riding in fell off a hovercraft in Apra Harbor, Guam.
		A memorial service was held aboard the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Peleliu in Apra Harbor yesterday, and more than 2,100 servicemen gathered to pay their respects to Lipford.
	www.newsbanner.com /articles/2004/02/20/news/news01.txt (1153 words)

	Oracle (AM-103) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On her first operation in the central Pacific, the invasion of Majuro Atoll, Marshalls, 31 January to 3 February 1944, she swept landing channels and took soundings for chart preparation.
		From 1 to 10 October Oracle was on emergency chemical smoke watch off Apra Harbor, Guam, to protect shipping from Japanese air attack.
		She continued service off Guam and in operations to Ulithi until proceeding to Okinawa.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/mine/am103.htm (463 words)

	Potter County
		After delivering an Army crash boat to Pearl Harbor, LST–1086 called at San Francisco, 30 May. Taking on a full load of ammunition and high explosives at the Navy Ammunition Depot, Port Chicago, Calif., she sortied in convoy 12 June, proceeding via Pearl Harbor and the Marshalls to Apra Harbor, Guam, Marianas Islands.
		Arriving Apra Harbor 31 July, LST–1086 off-loaded her cargo, took on Army and Marine passengers, and then set course for Pearl Harbor, arriving 25 August.
		She repaired at Pearl Harbor through 5 October 1945, when she stood out of that harbor with garrison forces for Okinawa.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p10/potter_county.htm (295 words)

	Caribia by Annette Donner
		She had come to a tragic end, the victim of a tropical storm that had beaten her against the ragged edges of Guam's Glass Breakwater at Apra Harbor on August 12th, 1974.
		Navy and Coast Guard tugs were unable to assist the stricken tug due to the large swells at the mouth of the harbor blocking their exit.
		The immediate concern was whether she blocked the harbor entrance or not, information vital to the supply necessities and strategic mission of the island.
	www.eguam.com /97/10/Caribia.html (1856 words)

	SMS Cormoran German Shipwreck in Guam
		On August 10th the "new" Cormoran left harbor and sailed throughout the south pacific region, spending literally all of her time trying to avoid the larger Japanese battleships that were chasing her all over the pacific.
		On December 14, 1914 the Cormoran pulled into Apra Harbor, Guam with only 50 tons of coal remaining.
		Due to both the very unstable relationships between Germany and the U.S., and that Guam also had a very limited amount of coal, the Guam Military Governor refused to supply the Cormoran with more than a token amount of coal, hence, she was forced into internment on Guam.
	www.mdaguam.com /smscormoran.htm (461 words)

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