From: Honolulu (Okuda)
To: Tokyo (Gaimudaijin)
6 January, 1941
(J17-K6)
#002 (in 2 parts-complete)
Re
my message #234 of last year.*
Vessels
seen in Pearl Harbor on the morning of the 5th were as follows:
Five
battleships (New Mexico, Mississippi, and probably the Idaho as well as two of
the Texas class) five heavy cruisers (one of the Portland class, three of the
class ----- and one of the New Orleans); nine light cruisers (five) of the
Honolulu class and four of the Omaha class); 37 destroyers: five destroyer
tenders: two (patrol boats?); several special service ships (of which two
seemed to be submarines, but it could not be definitely determined); two heavy
cruisers in (dry dock?) one vessel-either a battleship or a cruiser, is outside
the harbor.
Key-shaped
cranes, similar to those toward the stern of the Idaho class cruisers, are
being constructed on the five light cruisers of the Honolulu class, on the
extreme end of the after-deck.
It
was also noted that the more modern masts have replaced the mainmasts which
used to be on the four Omaha class vessels.
The
vessels which were previously reported to be mine sweepers are, in reality,
patrol boats, so please make corrections.
JD-1: 165 13495 6 January, 1941 Navy Trans. 1-10-41 (2)
*JD-1 74 (SIS #13380).
(EXHIBITS
OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 2 JAPANESE MESSAGES CONCERNING MILITARY
INSTALLATIONS, SHIP MOVEMENTS, ETC.)