15 SEPTEMBER 1923, Page 2

We regret to record the wreck of seven destroyers of

the United States Navy, which went ashore last Sunday on the rocks near Santa Barbara, California. There has seldom been so astonishing -an accident Steaming in line at twenty knots the destroyers crashed on to the rocks in a fog, although it was supposed that they were at least eight miles from. the -nearest land. The latter part of the line swung off in time, but the seven vessels all grounded more or less heavily. There were some gallant rescues, bat about twenty lives were lost.