Photo #: NH 42183
Honda Point disaster, September 1923
Wreck of USS S.P. Lee (DD-310), just offshore at Honda
Point, California, 4 December 1924, after the ship had been substantially
broken up by wave action. The view looks northward, with S.P.
Lee's galley deckhouse and boilers in the foreground.
Marked in the center is the galley deckhouse (with two 4"/50
guns still mounted) of USS Nicholas (DD-311).
Also marked, in the distance, is the wreck of the S.S. Santa
Rosa, which went ashore on this coast on 7 July 1911.
Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence,
May 1930.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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