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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