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Destroyers On the Rocks: Seven Ships Lost Spencer Duckworth. Fort Bragg, CA: Cypress House, 2005. 322 pp. Illus. Gloss. Appen. Index. $18.95.
On 8 September 1923. Navy Destroyer Squadron 11 departed San Franciso and joined other ships of the Baille Fleet Pacific en route to its homeport at San Diego. Experienced officers commanded and navigated every ship in the squadron-yet, by day's end. perhaps the greatest peacetime disaster in Navy history had...