Photo #: NH 66721
Honda Point Disaster, September 1923
Aerial view of the disaster area, showing all seven destroyers
that ran aground on Honda Point during the night of 8 September
1923. Photographed from a plane assigned to USS Aroostook
(CM-3).
Ships are: USS Nicholas (DD-311), in the upper left;
USS S.P. Lee (DD-310), astern of Nicholas;
USS Delphy (DD-261), capsized in the left center;
USS Young (DD-312), capsized in the center of the view;
USS Chauncey (DD-296), upright ahead of Young;
USS Woodbury (DD-309) on the rocks in the center;
and USS Fuller (DD-297), in the lower center.
The Southern Pacific Railway's Honda Station is in the upper
left.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral
William V. Pratt.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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