They also transported high-ranking officers, friendly coast watchers, and native guerrilla units.
Scouts were used as message runners, coast watchers, and were to be alert for men who had not reported for duty.
Taking aboard four coast watchers, Grampus sailed on 2 October 1942 for her fourth war patrol.
Neale had a hut with water tanks, some books and a badly damaged boat left over from the coast watchers.
I waited for Leo's return, standing beside the beehive wrapped in my old macintosh like a coast watcher from another, less secret war.
He had built a fleet especially for the occasion, hid it in the Nile mouths and posted coast watchers.
Many of the Scouts also volunteered for duties as interpreters, coast watchers and messengers, as well as to serve in hospitals and other support establishments.
During the afternoon of 12 November, word came from a coast watcher, "enemy aircraft approaching."
He was rescued by indigenous tribal members in a canoe and traveled by ten-man canoe for several hours to an Australian coast watcher's location.
Itaskians summoned by the coast watchers?