Patricia's Timeless Connections

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ABBOTT... AIRD... AQUART... BARTH... BENNETT... BODENSTEIN... CAMPBELL... DANIEL... DEMINE/DAMINE/DAMIAN... DONALDSON... DUNCAN... FRASER... GOULD... LANE... MARTIN... O'REILLY... O'SULLIVAN... OTWAY... PREUDHOMME... ROCHE... ROMNEY... SPORMAN / SPORMANN... STEPHENSON... STEVENSON... STEWART... WALLBRINK... and many more

On September 8, 1923 the USS Chauncey (DO 296), Delphy (DD 261), Fuller (DD 297), Nicholas (DO 311), S.P. Lee (DD 310, Woodbury (DD 309) and the Young (DD 312) ran aground at Point Pedemales, off Santa Barbara, California. The pictures below are Sever Photos of that and the resulting salvage of the S.P. Lee.

More information may be obtained at http://www.navsource.org/archives

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(left) U.S.S. S.P. Lee, (center) salvage crew on the S.P. Lee, (right) all that remains of the Delphy

(left) U.S.S. S.P Lee, (center) U.S.S. Chauncey, (right) U.S.S. Woodbury

(left) unknown (center) U.S.S. Chauncey on left and U.S.S. Young at right, (right) U.S.S. S.P. Lee

View from the beach

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