USS Harry Truman Damage to the collision detected in new photos while aircraft carrier returns to port for repair
USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier After colliding with a merchant Last week in the Mediterranean Sea, according to the US Navy. Pictures of the ship show damage to the parts of its outside, including a disposal wall, a maintenance space and a covered deck of the rear, called a fantel.
Navy officials said that USS Truman arrived on Sunday at a support site at the Souda Bay in Greece, where emergency repairs began on its fourth on the right, which is the right back of the ship opposite the port.
“The assessment of the damage includes the outer wall of two warehouses and the maintenance space,” the American Navy of Europe of Europe wrote on Sunday morning on social networks. “Exterior of the ship, the estimated damage includes a handling space, a fantail and a platform above one of the storage space.”
Photo by American Navy Chief Mass Communication Expert Jose Hernandez
The aircraft elevator near that part of Truman is not damaged and remains completely operational, the Navy added.
“Although the ship is fully capable and the ship conducted flight operations after a collision, indentation to the Emergency Repair port will allow the ship to continue schedule according to the schedule,” Captain Dave Snowden, commander of the ship, said in a statement.
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The carrier was in the eastern Mediterranean late Wednesday, when the collision happened near the port, said Egypt, Navy CMDR. Timothy Gorman, a spokesman for the 6th fleet, said in a statement. His strike group was deployed to about two months of combat operations in the field of responsibility of the United States Central Command, which includes parts of the Middle East, states 2.
A collision investigation launched last week. Navy official said on Thursday CBS News that no assessment had not yet been made about which vessel caused the incident. No injuries were reported in the collision.
According to the NavyUSS Harry S. Truman is the ninth aircraft carrier with a nuclear branch drive, and was launched on September 13, 1996. The ship 1,092 meters long can travel over 30 knots per hour, can carry about 90 aircraft and can accommodate more than 6,000 crew members.
