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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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9 July 2002