NAVAL DISASTER
OFFICERS OOURT-MARTIALLED
LOSS OF DESTROYERS.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association
(Received October 25, 9.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 24.
The squadron commander and 10 other officers have been summoned to a court-martial in connection with the wrecking of seven destroyers on the Californian coast recently.
Seven American destroyers, steaming at 20 knots, went ashore on San Miguel Island, off the Californian coast, during a heavy fog last month.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11660, 26 October 1923, Page 5
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69NAVAL DISASTER New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11660, 26 October 1923, Page 5
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