SUPPLEMENT TO PUEBLO SITREP NO. 25

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06811599
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2021
• Case Number: F-2018-00781
• Publication Date: February 1, 1968

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C.IpLO 98
No 0634/68
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
1 February 1968
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Supplement to Pueblo Sitrep No. 25
(Information as of 12 Midnight 31 January)
1. At 1:53 PM EST on 31 January the USS Rowan,
a destroyer escorting the attack carrier Ranger,
was involved in a collision with a Soviet merchant
ship. The Soviet ship--the merchant vessel Kapitan
Vislobokov--approached the Rowan, which was return-
ing to its station after replenishment, from the
north. The two ships' courses gave the Rowan the
right of way which required it to maintain course
and speed until in clear danger of colliding with
the other ship.
2. The Rowan maintained speed until a collision
appeared imminent, whereupon the Rowan turned away
from the path of the Soviet ship and one minute later
gave the emergency-collision signal and reversed
its engines. The collision occurred three minutes
later.
3. The Rowan received a three-foot hole above
the waterline on the port (left) side. The Soviet
ship signaled it had "damage to my stern two meters
in length" and "no assistance required".
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