US fleet movements at the "Battle of Pips"

Hello everyone,

I would like to attempt to do a painting of Battleship New Mexico, specifically, firing a broadside at night during the "Battle of Pips" off Kiska island.

I am trying to figure out if the New Mexico's guns were pointed off her port bow when she first opened fire.
In the "Thousand Mile War" by Brian Garfield, it states that the Mississippi got radar contacts to the Northeast (and she was steaming behind New Mexico. "New Mexico's plotting room tracked the target first on course 140 degrees T speed 17 knots".

Does this mean that the Giffen-Griffin task for was moving back towards Kiska more or less heading east, or north east when the battle started, and the two battleships were shooting to their port quarter?

I am not looking for pinpoint accuracy, but want to get it at least in the ballpark.

Thank you all for your help as always!

 

The fleet course was 95 degrees true, before turning left to 0 degrees true before opening fire. the bearing of all salvos fired was between 61 and 64.5 degrees true. So she was steaming due north and firing to the east-northeast, so over the starboard fore-quarter. The supposed target was steaming a near reciprocal course to the firing bearing, 240 degrees meant they were approaching from the east-northeast and sailing to the west-southwest.

 

Wow, I was way off. Thank you Rich! That is good information. I did not find much online.