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    The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history. On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while...
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    destroyers to ground on the rocky coast at Honda Point, California, a loss that came to be known as the Honda Point Disaster. Watson was court martialed for his...
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    of the squadron to run aground at Point Honda, in what is known as the Honda Point Disaster. Somers escaped disaster by conducting an emergency turn and...
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    War I. It was the flagship of the destroyer group involved in the Honda Point disaster. Richard Delphy was born c. 1795. He was appointed Midshipman on...
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    cancelled. Fourteen ships of the class were involved in the Honda Point Disaster (aka Point Pedernales) in 1923, of which seven were lost. Many never saw...
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  • destroyer, launched in 1919 and one of seven destroyers lost in the Honda Point Disaster on 8 September 1923 USS Nicholas (DD-449) was a Fletcher-class destroyer...
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    Chauncey, went aground on the jagged rocks off Point Pedernales, in what was called the Honda Point Disaster. Chauncey stranded upright, high on the rocks...
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    Oil Point. Goleta Point is a nearby extension into the channel. Point Arguello, a headland near the city of Lompoc, was the site of the Honda Point disaster...
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  • 1918 26 October 1923 Wrecked 8 September 1923 Ran aground in the Honda Point disaster, sold for scrap 19 October 1925 McDermut DD-262 Bethlehem Shipbuilding...
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    Celestial navigation Client-side prediction Drift meter Extrapolation Honda Point disaster Indoor positioning system Robotic mapping Simultaneous localization...
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    eight other ships, grounded on a foggy night on Honda Point, 8 September, in the Honda Point Disaster. Farragut and one other ship were able to get clear...
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    between it and Point Arguello in 1964, however by that time it was already inactive. Spaceflight portal Point Arguello Light Honda Point disaster Descripción...
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  • 1925. In 1923 he was a member of the Navy's Court of Inquiry on the Honda Point disaster. Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1925, he served first as Commandant...
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  • more than thirty years in US government service. He survived the Honda Point disaster. Dooman spent much of his diplomatic career in Japan with a two-year...
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    1923 Great Kantō earthquake (category Natural disasters in Tokyo)
    antityphoid measures and the building of urban infrastructure. The Honda Point Disaster on the West Coast of the United States, in which seven US Navy destroyers...
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    of Reno's squadron continued with the speed trial. It led to the Honda Point disaster later that day, in which seven of the destroyers were wrecked. Cuba's...
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  • destroyer units in Norfolk. Destroyer Squadron 11 Involved in the Honda Point Disaster in the 1920s. From 1939, Destroyer Squadron 11 of destroyers all...
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    Cornwall portal List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll List of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly Honda Point disaster The date of 22 October...
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    the “graveyard of the Pacific.” The event came to be known as the Honda Point Disaster.  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary...
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    destroyer division commander. His division was the second in line at the Honda Point Disaster, and two of his destroyers were among those lost. He returned to...
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  • known as the Honda Point Disaster. 34°36′07″N 120°38′39″W / 34.602067°N 120.644109°W / 34.602067; -120.644109 (Honda Point Disaster) Chickasaw  United...
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    president of the court of inquiry that examined the 8 September 1923 Honda Point Disaster. Assignments followed to the General Board and as president of the...
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    Ishirō Honda (Japanese: 本多 猪四郎(いしろう), Hepburn: Honda Ishirō, 7 May 1911 – 28 February 1993) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 46 feature films in...
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    Battle of May Island (category 1918 disasters in the United Kingdom)
    Battle of Barking Creek, a 1939 friendly-fire aviation incident Honda Point disaster, a 1923 incident involving United States destroyers Operation Wikinger...
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    Cañada Honda, from 1 mile to 4 miles east of Point Pedernales." Honda Point disaster San Antonio Creek (Vandenberg Space Force Base) "Cañada Honda Creek"...
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    'Young's' battered hull. In the subsequent investigation of the Honda Point Disaster the Board of Investigation commended Lt. Cmdr. Calhoun for his "coolness...
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    to Buellton and the rest of California around 1920. In 1923, the Honda Point disaster, the U.S.'s largest peacetime naval accident, occurred just off the...
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    Germany to Barry, Glamorgan, Wales, Adolf Vinnen was driven ashore at Bass Point, Cornwall, United Kingdom in a gale. The Lizard lifeboat attended the ship...
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    This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States...
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    including her bridge and funnels, but the damage inflicted was minimal. By this point in the battle, heavy American gunfire had set Infanta Maria Theresa on fire...
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