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The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history. [3] On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h), ran aground at Honda Point (also known as Point Pedernales; the cliffs just off-shore called Devil's Jaw), a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the Gaviota ...
USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (T-AGM-10) (originally named USS General Harry Taylor (AP-145)) was a General G. O. Squier -class transport ship in the United States Navy in World War II named in honor of U.S. Army Chief of Engineers Harry Taylor. She served for a time as army transport USAT General Harry Taylor, and was reacquired by the navy ...
Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899 – April 2, 1954) was a United States Air Force general. [1] He served as the second Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the second Director of Central Intelligence . During World War II, Vandenberg was the commanding general of the Ninth Air Force, a tactical air force in England and in France ...
The Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a former 17,120-ton military troop transport and missile-tracking ship, ... Wed., wearing black dive gear with black fins in the vicinity of Vandenburg Wreck. ...
This dive is becoming less common, as the rapid deterioration of the wreck is making diving more difficult on top of the already treacherous dive to reach the vessel. SS Arratoon Apcar – 19th-century British steamship that is now a wreck in Florida; SMS Geier – Unprotected cruiser of the German Imperial Navy
A SpaceX rocket will launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday morning, carrying 46 of the aerospace company’s Starlink satellites into orbit. The launch is scheduled for 10:39 a.m ...
Vandenberg (Dutch pronunciation: [vɑndɛnbɛrx]) is a Dutch–American hard rock band from Amsterdam and Los Angeles, formed in 1981. The group is named after guitarist Adriaan "Adje" van den Berg (a.k.a. Adrian Vandenberg ).
After the war, items such as the propeller blades, bunker oil, brass casings of shells, electric motors, junction boxes and copper tubing were salvaged from the ship. Earthquakes have since collapsed some sections of the wreck, which now rests on her port side with her bow at a depth of 21 metres (69 ft) and her stern at 73 metres (240 ft). [3 ...