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Photo # NH 55097:  Wreckage of USS Chauncey and USS Woodbury, December 1924

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The 1920s -- 1923

Honda Point Disaster, 8 September 1923 --
Later Views of the Wrecks (Part II)


This page features late 1924 views of the destroyer wrecks on southern Honda Point, after they had largely broken up.

For other pictures of the Honda Point wrecks, taken in the months after they went ashore, see:

  • Honda Point Disaster, 8 September 1923 -- Later Views of the Wrecks.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 42185

    Honda Point disaster, September 1923


    Remains of the bow section of USS Woodbury (DD-309) at Point Pedernales (Honda Point), California, 4 December 1924, after she had been broken up by the surf.

    Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence, May 1930.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42184

    Honda Point disaster, September 1923


    Remains of the bow section of USS Woodbury (DD-309) at Point Pedernales (Honda Point), California, 4 December 1924, after she had been broken up by the surf.
    Wreckage of the bow of USS Chauncey (DD-296) is in the right background.

    Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence, May 1930.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55098

    Honda Point disaster, September 1923


    Wreckage of USS Chauncey (DD-296) off Point Pedernales (Honda Point), California, 4 December 1924, after she had been substantially broken up by the surf. Her bow section is at left, and her midships (galley) deckhouse is in the foreground, with boilers beyond.
    The islet in the distance is Woodbury rock.

    Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence, May 1930.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55099

    Honda Point disaster, September 1923


    Wreckage of USS Chauncey (DD-296) off Point Pedernales (Honda Point), California, 4 December 1924, after she had been substantially broken up by the surf. Her bow section is at left, and her midships (galley) deckhouse is in the foreground, with boilers beyond.
    The islet in the distance is Woodbury rock, with arrows "W" and "F" marking the places where USS Woodbury (DD-309) and USS Fuller (DD-297) went aground on 8 September 1923.

    Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence, May 1930.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55096

    Honda Point disaster, September 1923


    Wreckage of USS Chauncey (DD-296) off Point Pedernales (Honda Point), California, 4 December 1924, after she had been substantially broken up by the surf.
    Items visible in this view include boilers.

    Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence, May 1930.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55100

    Honda Point disaster, September 1923


    Wreckage of USS Chauncey (DD-296) off Point Pedernales (Honda Point), California, 4 December 1924, after she had been substantially broken up by the surf. This view shows her midships (galley) deckhouse at right with the bow wreckage of USS Woodbury (DD-309) beyond.

    Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence, May 1930.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55097

    Honda Point disaster, September 1923


    Wreckage of USS Chauncey (DD-296) off Point Pedernales (Honda Point), California, 4 December 1924, after she had been substantially broken up by the surf. Her bow section is at right, and her midships deckhouse is in the left center.
    The bow wreckage of USS Woodbury (DD-309) is at left.

    Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence, May 1930.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     

    For other pictures of the Honda Point wrecks, taken in the months after they went ashore, see:

  • Honda Point Disaster, 8 September 1923 -- Later Views of the Wrecks.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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