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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 55098

Honda Point disaster, September 1923


Wreckage of USS Chauncey (DD-296) off Point Pedernales (Honda Point), California, 4 December 1924, after she had been substantially broken up by the surf. Her bow section is at left, and her midships (galley) deckhouse is in the foreground, with boilers beyond.
The islet in the distance is Woodbury rock.

Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence, May 1930.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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16 July 2002