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Photo #: NH 66723

Honda Point Disaster, September 1923

Aerial view of the disaster area, showing the seven destroyers that ran aground in a fog during the night of 8 September 1923. Photographed from a plane assigned to USS Aroostook (CM-3).
Ships are: USS Nicholas (DD-311), in the left center;
USS S.P. Lee (DD-310), astern of Nicholas;
USS Delphy (DD-261), capsized in small cove (center);
USS Young (DD-312), capsized in the center of the view;
USS Chauncey (DD-296), upright ahead of Young;
USS Woodbury (DD-309) on the rocks in the center;
and USS Fuller (DD-297), closest to the camera.

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