Boeing 314 construction number 1988, original registration NX18601. Delivered 27 January 1939 to Pan Am and operated as Honolulu Clipper and purchased by the US Navy on 17 December 1942. On 3 November 1945, this aircraft departed Pearl Harbor for San Francisco with 26 passengers aboard. After five and a half hours of flight, No.3 engine developed problems and was successfully shut down. Captain S. E. "Robby" Robinson elected to return to Hawaii, but within two hours, No.4 also had to be shut down, and Robinson decided to land. The local time was 23:07, approximately 650 miles east of Oahu. Maintaining radio contact with both California and Hawaii, five nearby vessels converged on the aircraft. The passengers were rescued by the tanker SS Englewood Hills at 08:00 the following morning, whil