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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