Photo #: NH 69587
Honda Point Disaster, September 1923
Aerial view of the disaster area, looking northward, seen from
a plane assigned to USS Aroostook (CM-3). Visible are
six of the seven destroyers that ran aground on Honda Point during
the night of 8 September 1923. They are:
USS Fuller (DD-297), at left;
USS Woodbury (DD-309), just ahead of Fuller;
USS Young (DD-312), capsized in the center of the view;
USS Chauncey (DD-296), upright just ahead of Young;
USS Nicholas (DD-311), beyond the rocks in the center;
and USS Delphy (DD-261), capsized in the small cove between
Chauncey and Nicholas.
The remaining ship, USS S.P. Lee (DD-310), is out of sight
behind the rocky point, astern of Nicholas.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral
William V. Pratt.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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