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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42174

Honda Point disaster, September 1923


USS S.P. Lee (DD-310) and USS Nicholas (DD-311) -- partially visible in upper left -- on the rocks at Honda Point, California, shortly after they ran aground in a fog during the night of 8 September 1923.
Note life rafts alongside S.P. Lee.

Donation of BMGC Ralph E. Turpin, 1963.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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9 July 2002