Tragedy at Honda

Lockwood, C.A. and H.C. Adamson: 2004 USA, softcover, 243 pages, illustrated. The disastrous night of September 8, 1923, when nine U.S. Navy destroyers from Destroyer Squadron 11 ran aground on the fog-shrouded reefs at Point Honda, California, due to navigational errors and unusual currents. The book details the heroic rescue efforts, resulting in the loss of 23 lives out of nearly 800, and the subsequent court-martial investigations that highlighted the conflicts between naval regulations and the unwritten code of destroyer doctrine ISBN 9781591144670 In very good condition