Publisher's Synopsis
Written in SCREENPLAY FORMAT, and intended as a documentary, HONDA POINT DISASTER is the true story of the United States Navy's greatest peacetime disaster, September 8, 1923. Rivaled only by the loss of life that occurred when two, United States Navy nuclear attack submarines, the Thresher and the Scorpion, went down in the Atlantic Ocean many years later, the Honda Point Disaster resulted in the deaths of twenty-three sailors and the destruction of seven, Clemson Class Destroyers in less than ten minutes. With over six-hundred men in the water, it was individual acts of heroism, accompanied by disciplined teamwork that took place on each of the seven stricken Destroyers that tragic night which undoubtedly prevented an even greater loss of life. Once again, in the best tradition of the United States Navy, these men of Destroyer Squadron Eleven fulfilled their duty and did what was expected of them, in peacetime, as in war. They put service above self and it is to them that this documentary is dedicated.
