Disaster At Devils Jaw !

[Eastwest]

One hundred years ago on September 8 th the largest peacetime disaster of the U. S. Navy before Pearl Harbor occurred just up the Coast from Santa Barbara north of Point Conception known locally as Honda Point . On a cold moonless night in thick fog fourteen new ships of Destroyer Squadron 11 sailing at a record pace from San Francisco to San Diego under radio silence turned hard east into Santa Barbara Chanel or so they thought . Seven Destroyers and twenty three sailors were lost to the jagged shores . The famous Lee Abbott shares their story in his film Disaster At Devils Jaw . Adventures Club , Alive and Well , August 1 6 : 00 P. M. and I will be there !

 

[Eric802]

Bad day for the new Clemson-class destroyers, for sure. It's an interesting story - in addition to a refusal to rely on new technology, an undersea earthquake days earlier likely contributed to the disaster.

 

[happy-diver]

you haven't given me much time to pack my jocks, socks and RSVP chief

Disaster At Devil’s Jaw with Lee Abbott – The Adventurers' Club of Los Angeles

www.adventurersclub.org

Will you be wearing a crimson rose in your lapel or the regulation Hawiian shirt, shorts, long socks with sandals

 

[Eastwest]

Cool indeed was the show last Thursday night and all is welcome including crazy me !