Word: arguello
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...seven days following the wreck of seven destroyers (TIME, Sept. 17) on Point Arguello, 75 miles from Santa Barbara, did little to cast light on the question of why the accident befell. The mystery was added to when (six days after the event) news reached the Navy Department that two other destroyers, the Farragut and Somers, had struck the rocks in the accident but escaped being driven ashore...
...only light east on the wreck is that possibly there was an unusual coastal current and that wireless communication was " jammed" on account of attempts to send aid to the Pacific Mail liner Cuba, wrecked a few hours earlier on San Miguel Island, 35 miles away. Arguello Point extends out into the Pacific at the place where the wreck occurred, and it is possible that Commander E. H. Watson, in charge of the destroyer squadron, believed that this Point had been rounded...