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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 69059

Honda Point Disaster, September 1923


USS Delphy (DD-261) capsized and broken in two at Honda Point, California, shortly after she ran aground in a fog during the night of 8 September 1923.
USS Nicholas (DD-311), wrecked at the same time, is in the background.
Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.

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9 July 2002