
Disaster Favours the Daring: Shipwreck at Honda Point
From Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Published 8/29/2025
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,…







