Disaster Favours the Daring: Shipwreck at Honda Point
Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim HarfordPublished On: Fri Aug 29 2025
Description: 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?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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