Sentences with phrase «peacetime disaster»

In 1923 what has been called the U.S. Navy's greatest peacetime disaster, the Honda Point Disaster, occurred off the Point when seven 4 — stacker destroyers mistook Point Arguello for Point Conception and sank, with 22 sailors lost.

It was the worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, a tragedy that remained lost in legend for over a century.

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The disaster at the Hillsborough football stadium on 15th April 1989 was one of the greatest peacetime tragedies of the last century.

The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships.

At one point on the channel is Point Arguello, a headland near the city of Lompoc, and the site of the Honda Point disaster in 1923, in which seven US Navy destroyers run aground, in the largest peacetime loss of US Navy ships.