US Navy destroyer, USS Higgins, lost power and propulsion after electrical fire

An electrical fire aboard the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Higgins caused the vessel to lose power and propulsion in the Indo-Pacific region on Tuesday, officials told the Washington Examiner. The USS Higgins is the Navy’s main presence in Asia, and experienced an “engineering casualty to their electrical distribution system,” U.S. Navy Commander Matthew Comer said. […]

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