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NH 42183 Honda Point disaster, September 1923

Photo #: NH 42183  Honda Point disaster, September 1923
Title: Honda Point disaster, September 1923
Description: Wreck of USS S.P. Lee (DD-310), just offshore at Honda Point, California, 4 December 1924, after the ship had been substantially broken up by wave action. The view looks northward, with S.P. Lee's galley deckhouse and boilers in the foreground. Marked in the center is the galley deckhouse (with two 4/50 guns still mounted) of USS Nicholas (DD-311). Also marked, in the distance, is the wreck of the S.S. Santa Rosa, which went ashore on this coast on 7 July 1911. Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence, May 1930. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 42183
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