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No effort was made to take soundings of water depths using a fathometer as this would require the ships to slow down to take the measurements. Hunter, who was also acting as the squadron's navigator, ignored its indicated bearings, believing them to be erroneous. USS Delphy was equipped with a radio navigation receiver, but her captain, Lieutenant Commander Donald T. At that time radio navigation aids were new and not completely trusted. The ships were navigating by dead reckoning, estimating positions from their course and speed, as measured by propeller revolutions per minute. The ships turned east to course 095, supposedly heading into the Santa Barbara Channel, at 21:00. All were Clemson-class destroyers, less than five years old. Captain Watson flew his flag on USS Delphy.

The fourteen ships of Destroyer Squadron Eleven (DesRon 11) were steaming south in column from San Francisco Bay to San Diego Bay on September 8, 1923. A propeller and a propeller shaft from Delphy is on display outside the Veterans' Memorial Building, in Lompoc, California. The memorial includes a ship's bell from Chauncey. There is a plaque and a memorial to the disaster at the site. Honda Point, also called Point Pedernales, is located on the seacoast at Vandenberg Air Force Base, near the city of Lompoc, California. Plaque commemorating the Honda Point disaster Twenty-three sailors died in the disaster.

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Two other ships grounded, but were able to maneuver free off the rocks. On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h), ran aground at Honda Point (also known as Point Pedernales the cliffs just off-shore called Devil's Jaw), a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County, California. The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S.

Delphy, capsized and broken in the small cove at left Young, capsized in left center Chauncey, upright ahead of Young Woodbury on the rocks in the right center and Fuller on the rocks at right. Photographed from a plane assigned to USS Aroostook. Aerial view of the disaster area, showing all seven destroyers.