Photo #: NH 66722
Honda Point Disaster, September 1923
Aerial view of the southern part of the disaster area, showing
five of the 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 visible are:
USS Delphy (DD-261), capsized in the small cove at left;
USS Young (DD-312), capsized in left center;
USS Chauncey (DD-296), upright ahead of Young;
USS Woodbury (DD-309) on the rocks in the right center;
and USS Fuller (DD-297) on the rocks at right.
The Southern Pacific Railway's Honda Station is in the upper
middle.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral
William V. Pratt.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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