Sept. 6, 2023

Disaster at Honda Point

One hundred years ago, on 8 September 1923, seven U.S. Navy destroyers ran aground at Honda Point, California, killing 23 sailors in the worst peacetime disaster in the history of the service.

Jan. 3, 2015

Great White Fleet Assists Following Messina Earthquake

A street in Messina, Sicily, showing damage caused by the earthquake that hit Dec. 28, 1908. Photographed in January 1909. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph from the Collection of Lt. Cmdr. Richard Wainwright (who was assigned to USS Connecticut during the relief mission to Messina).When President Theodore Roosevelt's Great White