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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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9 July 2002