In early 1968, she made a voyage to American Samoa and Canton Island.
He took pictures of these two "dim light" phenomena from Zanzibar, across the Earth's nightside, to Canton Island.
She returned to Oahu on 9 April towing two barges from Canton Island.
He was then supposed to patrol near Canton Island to cover a convoy arriving there on 12 February.
Initially, TF 17's orders called for operations in the vicinity of Canton Island.
In 1942 he was in command of the 46th Fighter Squadron on Canton Island.
That spring, the troopship President Taylor, while on a voyage to Canton Island, ran aground there.
The spacecraft moved across Australia and across the Pacific to Canton Island.
Swan put to sea again on the 30th to carry supplies to Canton Island.
By late February Mahan had moved on to Canton Island, where she was temporarily assigned to offshore patrol duty.