Photos released by the U.S. Navy show the New Orleans, left, participating in a training exercise in the Pacific Ocean November 2008 and the Hartford moored off the U.S. Naval Academy in Chesapeake Bay March 1999. Photo from L.A. Times.2 US Navy Vessels Collide In Strait Of Hormuz -- Yahoo News/AP
MANAMA, Bahrain – Two U.S. Navy vessels — a nuclear-powered submarine and an amphibious ship — collided before dawn Friday in the mouth of the Persian Gulf, one of the world's most important sea passages for oil supplies.
There was no damage to the sub's nuclear propulsion system and no disruption to shipping in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil passes, said Navy spokesman Lt. Nate Christensen, with the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet.
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