Disaster Favours the Daring: Shipwreck at Honda Point
29 August 2025

Disaster Favours the Daring: Shipwreck at Honda Point

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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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, others sinking fast, and deadly oil leaking into the Pacific Ocean. How?

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