In 1923, legendary navigator Captain Dolly Hunter led a squadron of warships into America’s worst peacetime naval catastrophe. The mission was supposed to be a speed trial, a display of the squadron’s skill. But it ended in a maritime pile-up, with some destroyers stranded on rocks, others sinking fast, and deadly oil leaking into the Pacific Ocean. How?
This episode was originally released on Pushkin+.
The wrong shownotes were originally published for this episode; I apologise for the error. (Come back for the story of Frances Kelsey next week…)
CC Lockwood and HC Adamson Tragedy at Honda
Steven M. Casey Set Phasers On Stun
Gary Klein Seeing What Others Don’t
Noah Andre Trudeau “A Naval Tragedy’s Chain of Errors” Naval History Magazine February 2010
Frankie Witzenburg “Disaster at Honda Point” Naval History Magazine October 2020
Gordon Smith “United States Navy’s Disaster at Honda Point 1923”