Navy Disaster - Ship Wreck (1914-1918)

US Navy disaster - destroyers aground on Point Honda Location & time- Point Honda, California 8 September 1923. On the night of 8 September 1923, seven ships of Destroy Squadron 11 ran aground, through navigational error, on Point Honda, between San Fransisco and San Diego. The ships lost were: Delphy (DD-261), (DD-310), Young (DD-312), Woodbury (DD-309), Nicholas (DD-311), Fuller (DD-297), and Chauncey (DD-296). 23 men lost their lives. All the ships names can be seen in this clip. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Vis