Young (U.S.S.)

On September 8, 1923, Young accompanied other ships of Destroyer Squadron Eleven on a cruise down the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego. Shortly after nightfall, the formation of destroyers turned eastward to enter the Santa Barbara Channel. However, due to a navigation error on the squadron flagship, the turn was actually made several miles too far north, and seven ships ran aground on fog-enshrouded Point Pedernales (locally called Honda Point). Young, the third ship in the column, ripped her bottom open as this vesse approached the rocky shore and quickly rolled over on her starboard side. Twenty of her crew were lost in this disaster, and the rest were rescued after a very difficult time clinging to the wave-washed hull of their capsized ship.