A US Navy warship lost power and propulsion for several hours in the Indo-Pacific on Tuesday, a US defense official said, after suffering what a Navy statement called an “engineering casualty” in its electrical system.
Such a situation would leave the ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins, and its crew of about 300 “helpless” in the water, a naval analyst told CNN. There were no injuries among those aboard, the Navy said.
The Higgins “experienced a loss of power throughout the ship,” Cmdr. Matthew Comer, a spokesperson for the US 7th Fleet, said in the statement Friday.
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