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NH 69508 Honda Point Disaster, September 1923

Photo #: NH 69508 Honda Point Disaster, September 1923
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Title: Honda Point Disaster, September 1923
Description: 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 History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 69508
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