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15-02-2025
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USS Harry S. Truman ship collision damage revealed in new photos
New images reveal the extent of the damage the USS Harry S. Truman suffered this week when it collided with a merchant vessel near Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. The photos released Saturday by the Navy's Sixth Fleet show a tear on the starboard side of the aircraft carrier, near its stern. A pipe running along the side of the ship appears to be severely damaged as well. "The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) was involved in a collision with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M at approximately 11:46 p.m. local time, Feb. 12, while operating in the vicinity of Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea," the Navy's Sixth Fleet Public Affairs said in a statement earlier this week. Uss Harry S. Truman Involved In Collision Near Egypt "The collision did not endanger the Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) as there are no reports of flooding or injuries. The propulsion plants are unaffected and in a safe and stable condition," it added. Read On The Fox News App The Navy said the incident is now "under investigation." Six Deadliest Non-combat Military Aviation Accidents In The Last 5 Years The ship "provides a wide range of flexible mission capabilities to include maritime security operations, expeditionary power projection, forward naval presence, crisis response, sea control, deterrence, counter-terrorism, information operations and security cooperation," according to the Navy. "The ship's embarked air wing is capable of projecting tactical air power over the sea and inland, as well as providing sea based air, surface and subsurface defense capabilities," it also article source: USS Harry S. Truman ship collision damage revealed in new photos
Fox News
15-02-2025
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USS Harry S. Truman ship collision damage revealed in new photos
New images reveal the extent of the damage the USS Harry S. Truman suffered this week when it collided with a merchant vessel near Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. The photos released Saturday by the Navy's Sixth Fleet show a tear on the starboard side of the aircraft carrier, near its stern. A pipe running along the side of the ship appears to be severely damaged as well. "The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) was involved in a collision with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M at approximately 11:46 p.m. local time, Feb. 12, while operating in the vicinity of Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea," the Navy's Sixth Fleet Public Affairs said in a statement earlier this week. "The collision did not endanger the Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) as there are no reports of flooding or injuries. The propulsion plants are unaffected and in a safe and stable condition," it added. The Navy said the incident is now "under investigation." The ship "provides a wide range of flexible mission capabilities to include maritime security operations, expeditionary power projection, forward naval presence, crisis response, sea control, deterrence, counter-terrorism, information operations and security cooperation," according to the Navy. "The ship's embarked air wing is capable of projecting tactical air power over the sea and inland, as well as providing sea based air, surface and subsurface defense capabilities," it also said.
Yahoo
13-02-2025
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Navy Aircraft Carrier Collides with Merchant Ship Outside Suez Canal
The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier was involved in a collision Wednesday with a merchant ship during its current deployment to the Middle East, according to the Navy. The Navy's Sixth Fleet said in a statement that the carrier collided with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M just before midnight local time while operating near Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea. The collision appears to have occurred outside the city, which sits at the northern opening to the Suez Canal, and as a result is an area of dense maritime traffic, with ships coming in and out of the canal as well as others waiting to begin their transit. Read Next: Navy SEAL Candidates Sickened by Training in Sewage-Laced Ocean Water, Pentagon Watchdog Finds The Navy, in its statement, said that the collision did not result in flooding or injuries aboard the Truman but stopped short of saying that the ship was undamaged. However, the service stressed that the carrier's propulsion plant -- powered by a pair of nuclear reactors -- was "unaffected and in a safe and stable condition." Meanwhile, the Besiktas is a Panamanian-flagged bulk cargo ship that had just passed through the Suez Canal and was on its way to a port in Romania, according to ship tracking websites. The cargo ship, with a length of 620 feet and a width of 105 feet, is roughly half the size of the Truman, which measures a bit over 1,000 feet in length and 252 feet at its flight deck. A Navy official told that the cargo ship suffered some damage, but none of its crew was injured. The collision comes just months after the Truman was involved in combat operations in the Red Sea against Houthi rebels and lost a fighter jet to friendly fire. On Dec. 22, the USS Gettysburg crew fired on an F/A-18 that had just flown off the deck of the Truman aircraft carrier, destroying the aircraft and forcing its two aviators to eject. One of the two sailors suffered minor injuries. Since then, few details have been released about the incident and investigations are still believed to be ongoing. However, the Navy's top aviation officer said in mid-January that officials have already done "a big debrief, basically, to make sure we know what happened and why." The Navy's statement said that the Truman collision is now under investigation and promised to release more information "as it becomes available." Related: Commander of Navy Ship Involved in F/A-18 Friendly Fire Incident Turns over Command
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13-02-2025
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Aircraft Carrier USS Harry S. Truman Collides With Merchant Ship (Updated)
Details are still emerging, but the U.S. Navy supercarrier USS Harry S. Truman has collided with a merchant vessel identified as the Besiktas-M in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt's Port Said. The U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet has put out the following statement: 'The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) was involved in a collision with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M at approximately 11:46 p.m. local time, Feb. 12, while operating in the vicinity of Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea.' 'The collision did not endanger the Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) as there are no reports of flooding or injuries. The propulsion plants are unaffected and in a safe and stable condition. The incident is under investigation. More information will be released as it becomes available.' The current status of the Besiktas-M and its crew is not entirely clear. 'The other ship sustained damage above the waterline, but it continued on its own power,' a U.S. Navy official told TWZ. 'The Truman was preparing to transit south into the Suez Canal. No damage to the nuclear power plant.' We will update this story with more information as it becomes available. Update: 1:45 PM EST – The Besiktas-M has been now further identified as a Panamanian-flagged bulk cargo ship, according to online ship tracking site Vessel Tracker. The 618-foot (188.5-meter) long Besiktas-M had been heading north after leaving the port of Aqaba in Jordan with its stated destination being Constanta in Romania on the Black Sea. Current positions for the Besiktas-M and CVN-75 (highlighted) via @MarineTraffic Source- — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 13, 2025 Vessel Tracker also says that Besiktas-M was involved in a previous collision with another commercial ship, the Common Spirit, near Chittagong in Bangladesh in 2016, in which both vessels were damaged. It has also been pointed out that collisions involving U.S. Navy carriers are rare in large part because they typically sail at the center of a carrier strike group. However, all ships have to pass single-file through the Suez Canal. US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier has collided with a 618' Panamanian reports of flooding or fire—a very good collisions are rare since they sail at the center of a battle group. But this one happened at the entrance to the Suez Canal where they have to… — John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) February 13, 2025 Contact the author: joe@
USA Today
13-02-2025
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US aircraft carrier collides with cargo ship off Egypt coast
Hear this story WASHINGTON − A U.S. aircraft carrier collided with a cargo ship Wednesday evening in the eastern Mediterranean Sea near Port Said, Egypt, the service's Sixth Fleet announced. The USS Harry S. Truman did not suffer flooding, damage to its nuclear-powered engines, or injuries to its crew, according to the fleet. Port Said, the nearest port to where the collision occurred, is at the northern end of the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. The other ship involved in the collision, the Panama-flagged merchant vessel Besiktas-M, is a Panama-flagged bulk cargo carrier, according to the online VesselFinder database. Its status, and that of its crew, is unclear. The ship transited the canal in the hours before the collision. The Navy did not provide further details about the incident, which it said "is under investigation." The carrier, which operates out of Norfolk, Va., has a crew and additional units that total roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines. The Navy considers its eleven aircraft carriers to be the centerpiece of how it protects U.S. interests around the world. Each of the massive ships forms the nucleus of a multi-ship "carrier strike group" that patrol the world's waterways.
