DD Manuevers, 1923

[mlees]

Wow! Just... wow!

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/even ... ondapt.htm

Can you imagine the firestorm from players if accidents happened in game?

[Tankerace]

Hehehe, yup. Kinda scary. If I knew it wouldn't trigger the fast Allied replacement rule, I'd put a big minefield there. But I can hear the "Its a bug!" already [:D]

You'll also note that all destroyers lost at Honda don't appear in the late campaign.

Its still hard to imagine that happening... almost an enter desdiv wiped out.....

[mlees]

I read some passing references made to this incident, but I did not realise that so many ships ran aground!

I assumed it was two or three, not seven.

[Temple]

I worked out at Vandenberg AFB back in the eighties and if you went out to the point you could still see the wreckage of one of the ships, the remains of a boiler.

[mlees]

When you google "september 8, 1923" you get a bunch of links for this event.

From http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/even ... ondapt.htm there is a couple of photos taken some time after the incident, and you can see how quickly the surf in that area broke up these ships.