Photo #: NH 69585
Honda Point Disaster, September 1923
Aerial view of the disaster area, looking westward, seen from
a plane assigned to USS Aroostook (CM-3). Visible are
five of the seven destroyers that ran aground on Honda Point
during the night of 8 September 1923. They are:
USS Fuller (DD-297), beyond the small rock island in the
center;
USS Woodbury (DD-309), just ahead of Fuller;
USS Chauncey (DD-296), closest to the camera;
USS Young (DD-312), capsized astern of Chauncey;
and USS Delphy (DD-261), barely visible, capsized just
beyond the coast at right.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral
William V. Pratt.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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