![]() ![]() 50 caliber guns, killing one American and wounding multiple others. Signaling HEAVE TO OR I WILL FIRE, the sub chaser subsequently raked the Pueblo with her. The Pueblo quickly maneuvered away, only to be engaged once again by the sub chaser. North Korean sailors armed with AK-47s transferred from the sub chaser to the torpedo boat and approached the Pueblo‘s starboard side in an attempt to board. The Pueblo replied, I AM IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS, as two NK MiGs executed a harrowing low-level fly over. Three more P4 torpedo boats approached from the northeast while the sub chaser signaled the Pueblo, HEAVE TO OR I WILL FIRE. A little after 1200, a North Korean SO-1-class sub chaser approached the Pueblo at 40 knots with her crew at battle stations. ![]() On January 23 1968, the Pueblo was collecting intelligence in international waters off the east coast of North Korea, disguised with her two civilian oceanographers on deck and the appropriate signal flags hoisted. The detainment of the Pueblo and her crew by North Korea would create one of the largest diplomatic and naval controversies of the next several decades. Naval ship to be captured on the high seas since the War of 1812. Christened the USS Pueblo after being converted from a WWII-era Army transport ship, she would be the first U.S. In the midst of the Vietnam War, one of the most famous ships of the era was an electronic and signal intelligence ship posted off the east coast of North Korea. ![]()
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