The USS Navy Port Royal, grounded just outside Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. Last thursday a one billion dollar missile guided cruiser ran aground just before the Honolulu coast.
The 9600 ton weighing vessel, the USS Port Royal has been stuck on a reef about 1,5 miles from the entrance of Pearl Harbor since then.

 

Salvage Attempts Fail
The Navy scrambled tug boats and divers to salvage the ship on Friday. Unfortunately two salvage attempts on Friday and Saturday failed to move the ship.
Now army has started transferring fuel, fresh water and personnel in an attempt to make the vessel 215 tons lighter. A new attempt to tug the ship free from the reef will take place later today.

 

> Watch this Hawaiian news broadcast about the grounded USS Port Royal.

 


Half of the crew on board has been moved ashore, that’s 360 people with a total weight of 15 tons.
Marines still on board aren’t that lucky as due to the incident, air conditioning on board broke down.
The grounded navy vessel, USS Port Royal.

 

The Port Royal is one of the Navy’s premier warships, equipped with the sophisticated Aegis radar system and capable of shooting down enemy ballistic missiles.

 

As usually is the case, the grounding of a Navy vessel will mean an early end of commanding officer Captain John Carroll’s career.

 

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