TWL: RE: Even the big boys make mistakes

[Zeke Anderson]

I remember seeing a great photo of these DD's on the beach. Does anyone
know where that might be?

Joe Engel

It happened at Point Honda, aka Honda Point north of Point Arguello and just
below Point Pedernales on the California Coast near Vandenburg AFB and
Lompoc. Seven DDs all ran on the rocks and were lost. See and read about it
at: http://www.naval-history.net/WW1z07Americas.htm
Zeke Anderson
Kerrville, TX


on 7/9/02 8:55 PM, Kevin Redden at kfredden@verizon.net wrote:

> Take a look at: http://www.hazegray.org/faq/smn6.htm#F9.
>
> This was one of the US Navy's bigger public relations snafus with a
> whole distroyer division going on the rocks back in 1923.

As I recall the story of the grounding of these four stack destroyers,
there was a new fangled radio direction finding installation on board,
and the Officer in Charge was warned that they had turned too soon on
the basis of the radio fix, but ignored the warning.

John LeRoy
M/V Traveller
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