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Photo #: NH 69508

Honda Point Disaster, September 1923


Wrecked destroyers at Honda Point, California, shortly after they went ashore in a fog during the night of 8 September 1923.
USS Delphy (DD-261) is in the foreground, capsized and broken in two. In the middle, also capsized, is USS Young (DD-312). USS Woodbury (DD-309) is faintly visible in the upper right. At left, behind the rocks, is the stern of USS Chauncey (DD-296).

Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1979.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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9 July 2002