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...U.S.S. Tacoma, 20-year-old light cruiser which ran on Blanquilla Reef off Vera Cruz while on duty in Mexican waters (TIME, Jan. 28), was struck by a heavy norther while still aground. Captain Herbert G. Sparrow and 19 men remained aboard trying to float the ship. During the storm, which lasted two days and drove the tugs, standing by, to harbor, the Captain and three radio men lost their lives. The ship is a complete loss, wedged on the reef with a 100° list, wrecked pilothouse gone, light bulkheads crushed, spar deck swept clean, gun-deck partially under...
Secretary of State Hughes attempted to ease the Mexican situation (TIME, Jan. 7 et seq.) without damage to U. S. interests and without hostilities. He met with difficulties. The light cruiser Tacoma, which has been patrolling the Mexican coast for some time, after putting in at Galveston, ran aground on Blanquilla Reef on its return to Vera Cruz, Rebel capital. There are normally five different lights visible at that point, but it is believed that these were extinguished by the Rebels. The greater part of the crew was taken ashore. The cruiser, still manned by a small complement...
...destroyer squadron who testified declared that the radio bearings received from the Point Arguello station were apparently contradictory, and that therefore they had judged them wrong and followed their own reckoning. Five minutes after the course of the vessels had been changed in this belief the vessels went aground. The Point Arguello radio station presented its log, contradicting many of the statements of the destroyer officers...
...clock in the evening; the Santa Barbara Channel; 19 vessels of Destroyer Division 11 of the Battle Fleet speeding southward, bound from San Francisco to the San Diego base; 20 knots speed. Suddenly the leading boat struck the rocks, then the next, the next, the next. . . Seven were aground, piled on the rocks and beach, neatly at intervals of about 250 feet. The Delphy's siren warned the other twelve from the rocks...
...cruiser Seattle, bearing Admiral Coontz, Commander of the United States Fleet, went aground off Marrowstone Point in Puget Sound during a dense fog. Pulled off by tugs, she proceeded under her own power to the Puget Sound Navy Yard...