WRECKED DESTROYERS
SOLD FOR £3OO. AFTER3IATH OF DISASTER. (Sydney “Sun” Cable.) NEW’ January 28. A San Francisco oompany has bought the wrecks of the seven destroyers recently lost on the Californian coast fat £3OO, On September Bth last seven United States destroyers were piled up on the rocks of San Bliguel Island during a heavy fog. The disaster centred round the Arguello light, 75 miles north from Santa Barbara. The fleet, which consisted of nine destroyers, was l hastening to the rescue of the crew of the steamer Cuba, which had sent out wireless distress signals. The destroyer fleet is said to have lost its bearings owing to a wireless jam, though later it was alleged that an abnormal current had been created by the Japanese earthquake. The destroyers wrecked were the Cliauncey, Woodbury, Fuller, Splee, Nicholas, Young, and Delphic, the last being the flagship. Twenty-nine sea men lost their lives in the disaster.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11740, 30 January 1924, Page 5
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