Honda Point disaster
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The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in history. On the foggy and moonless night of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers traveling at 20 knots ran aground and wrec
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Plaque commemorating the disaster
USS Delphy prior to grounding
USS Delphy (foreground) broken in half at Honda Point
The Scilly naval disaster of 1707 was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly near the British mainland when they struck rocks on 22 October 1707. Between 1,400 and 2,0
Honda Point disaster
…in the Teapot Dome scandal. In February 1924, five months after the shipwrecks, he resigned and formally disapproved of the court-martial acquittals. Scilly naval disaster of 1707 – loss of four British warships upon rocks in the Celtic Sea Hice, Charles. The Last Hours of Seven Four-Stackers (1967…
c. 1739 engraving of the disaster, with HMS Association in the centre
Portrait of Sir Cloudesley Shovell by Michael Dahl
The Isles of Scilly. The Western Rocks, Crim Rocks and Bishop Rock all are in the lower left of this image.
Sir Cloudesley Shovell's monument in Westminster Abbey, by Grinling Gibbons