Lompoc, California: Honda Point Disaster Memorial
Propeller and shaft of doom from the U.S. Navy destroyer Delphy, which led six other destroyers onto the rocks off of Lompoc on September 8, 1923.
- Address:
- 100 E. Locust Ave., Lompoc, CA
- Directions:
- In front of the Lompoc Veterans Memorial Building. Take Highway 246 west to Lompoc, then turn south on H St. and follow it to the end.
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On September 8, 1923 a fleet of U.S. Navy destroyers ran aground on the coast of Central California, after misjudging their location. A total of seven ships were lost in the Navy's worst peacetime disaster. The mangled propeller from the flagship, the USS Delphy, commemorates the Honda Point Disaster.
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The USS Delphy, responsible for navigation, led the other six destroyers onto the rocks. Its propellers helped chop up the USS Young, which then capsized.