Naval station area at Tutuila, Samoas shelled according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 12 January 1942

An item reported that the naval station area at Tutuila, Samoas was shelled from the north shore by a submarine or a small surface vessel. The about 15 shells cuased no damage and just 3 slight personnal injuries.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 12 January 1942 No. 33 

German cruiser SMS Cormoran visited the Dutch East Indies in 1899

Brisbane, Australia around 1914

The Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht 1898-1899 reported that the German cruiser 3rd class SMS Cormoran visited Ternate, Dutch East Indies in March 1899. 1) The Dutch newspaper De Locomotief dated 28 April published an item dated 26 March reporting her visit for coal bunkering coming from Kiatshau, China and bound for Samoa.(2)

Notes

1. Unprotected cruiser of the Bussard-class consisting of the Bussard, Falke, Seeadler, Condor and Cormoran, preceded y the Schwalbe-class and succeeded by the Gefion. Laid down By Kaiserliche Werft, Kiel, Germany as Kreuzer IV. Classe E in November 1890, launched on 17 May 1892, commissioned on 25 July 1893 and scuttled at Tsingtau, China to prevent capture by the Japanese forces on 28 September 1914.

2. The western part of the Samoa archipelago was between 1990 and 1914 in German hands and the eastern part a territory of the USA as American Samoa since 1900.

US Navy founding coals bunker stations on American Samoa and the Sandwich islands according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1892-1893 no. 6

An item referred to the Army and Naval Journal reporting that the US Navy intended to found a coal bunker station at Pago Paga, Samoa Islands [American Samoa]. The negotiations for buying the necessary area for building the necessary buildings and a 270 feet long quay were still going on. It was expected that a similar station would be founded on the Sandwich Islands.