Frigate Starts Piggyback Trip Home
Associated Press
MANAMA, Bahrain —
The U.S. missile frigate Samuel B. Roberts started home Friday from the Persian Gulf on the back of another ship 11 weeks after an Iranian mine nearly sank it.
The 3,600-ton warship rode in a special cradle atop the Mighty Servant 2, a chartered Dutch heavy-lift cargo vessel. Emergency repairs to the $400-million frigate’s badly ripped hull were made at Dubai.
U.S. officials said the frigate will be rebuilt at the shipyard in Bath, Me., where it was launched in 1986.
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