Photo #: NH 42175
Honda Point disaster, September 1923
Part of the wreck of USS Woodbury (DD-309), just off Point
Pedernales (Honda Point), California, circa early or mid-1924,
while she was being broken up by the surf.
The item sticking up over Woodbury's remains, in the left
center, is a smokestack and the galley deckhouse from the wreck
of USS Chauncey (DD-296).
Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence,
May 1930.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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