Doran was last sighted passing the Farallon Islands at 2:43 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST). Golden Eagle was last reported approximately halfway to Honolulu, at the southern edge of the course with Aloha at 2 AM PST on August 17 by , relaying messages from the Army Signal Corps. At about the same time, relayed a message that Woolaroc, possibly accompanied by Miss Doran, was also approximately halfway, at the northern edge of the course. Because Golden Eagle had sufficient fuel to reach and pass Hawaii altogether, some theorized the aircraft may have overshot the goal in the darkness; Wyatt rejected that theory as ludicrous, as the Golden Eagle would have passed over the islands in broad daylight. 42 Navy ships were involved in the search for the Golden Eagle and Miss Doran, joined by smaller vessels based in Hawaii; and departed from San Diego the night of August 17. The search fleet included three submarines, , , and . By August 19, Langley had started steaming towards Hawaii at from a spot west of the Farallones, sweeping a lane wide with its airplanes. Other surface ships that had set out from California were commanded to shift their search parallel to the Great Circle route. Meanwhile, three ships left Hawaii for San Francisco on August 18, sweeping the ocean in the opposite direction: , , and . Some residents of Wailuku stated they had heard an airplane's engine grow louder, then abruptly cease on the afternoon of the 17th. Two boys said they had seen an aircraft run out of fuel and glide down just off the north shore of Oahu on August 17 at 9 PM local time, with its engine glowing red. A report that Miss Doran had been found in Honolua Bay the night of August 18 proved to be false; a sampan with an identical red, white, and blue color scheme had been mistaken for the aircraft. On August 19, an amateur radio operator in Alhambra reportedly intercepted a radio message stating a derelict airplane had been found along with a raft containing a live man and a dead woman; the radio frequency was not traditionally used by ships, however, and no ships were known to be in the vicinity of the transmission's origin. Final flight of Dallas Spirit After repairing Dallas Spirit, Erwin and Eichwaldt joined the search, leaving Oakland for Honolulu on August 19