The Navy Navy aircraft carrier collided with a merchant ship in the Mediterranean Sea shortly before midnight near the port in Egypt, according to Navy officials.
USS Harry S. Truman, Nimitz class carrier, acted in the red sea While from December 14th, he was deployed under the Central Command of the United States, helping to start an attack in Yemen against the Houthi militia there attacking civilian ships and vessels related to Israel.
There were no reports on floods or injuries on Truman, and the Navy stated in a statement on Thursday that the ship’s propulsion systems were launched by two built -in nuclear reactors, “they did not influence both safe and stable states.”
The Navy also said the collision was under investigation.
Internet tracker to monitor ship tracking ships reported that there were no injuries Commercial crew Brod, Besiktas-M, scattered carrier built in 2003 and sailed under the Panama flag. The ship traveled from the Aqaba port to Jordan to Constart, a port city in Romania, a black sea.
A collision near Luka said in Egypt breaks the obvious security series of the US Navy when it comes to accidents with commercial ships. Prior to the collision of Truman, the most prominent recent ones happened in 2017 and led to internal calculation. Two such collisions in the Western Pacific was killed by 17 sailors that year. Navy investigations revealed that they were that he was “avoiding“The result of crew errors.
You downstairs brought to safety rack of all sailor shipsand the Seventh Fleet Commander in Japan, who oversees the Navy Operations between the Indian Ocean and the International Line liberated duty. Commander of the Navy Pacific Fleet decided to withdraw after two collisionswhen he was told that it was no longer wrong to promote.
17. June of that year, USS Fitzgerald hit ACX CrystalA 30,000 -ton container ship near the coast of Japan, throwing a hole in the trunk of the destroyer. Seven US sailors diedand the commander and executive clerk of the warship were fired After the investigation.
Just over two months later, another destroyer, USS John S. McCain, hit by ALNIC MCa 600 -foot oil tanker, near the Singapore coast, punching of a hull of a warship. Ten naval sailors died When their living spaces were flooded with seawater.
According to historical standards, the Navy Record in recent decades has been “extremely good,“According to the 2022 report written by Samuel J. Cox, a retired Admiral leading the command of the Navy History and Heritage.
And fatal collisions for navy warships were relatively rare. 2004, USS John F. Kennedy, a carrier of an earlier design aircraft from Truman, collided in the Persian Gulf with small traditional Arab sailboats used mainly for transport and fishing. The boat immediately sank, and it is believed that everyone died. Two war planes at Kennedy were damaged.
USS Greeneville, a rapid attack in Los Angeles, Clashed with Japanese fishing boatEchime Maru, near the Oahu coast in Hawaii, 2001, killing nine passengers on a fishing ship, including four high school students.
Truman started nine aircraft squadron and was accompanied by a cruiser and two destroyers. Together, Truman Strike Group recently launched attacks on Iranian militia supported by Houthhi, Central Command said. The US army carried out a series of strikes at Houthis, who suggested on Thursday that he would continue to attack Israel and ships in the Red Sea if the interruption of fire in Gaza had fallen apart.
On Wednesday, the collision was the second known main accident of Truman’s current deployment.
December 22, Hornet f/a-18 fighter flying from Truman was wrongly knocked down USS Gettysburg, Cruiser followed the carrier during the air charging mission.
