Caption:
PEARL HARBOR (Feb. 7, 2009) -- The Pearl Harbor-based guided-missile
cruiser USS Port Royal (CG 73) takes a starboard list as the USNS
Salvor (T-ARS 52) tries to free the ship after it ran aground Feb. 5
about a half-mile south of the Honolulu airport while off-loading
personnel into a small boat. The salvage ship USNS Salvor (T-ARS 52),
which included an embarked detachment of Mobile Diving Salvage Unit
(MDSU) 1 personnel, the Motor Vessel Dove, and seven Navy and
commercial tugboats freed Port Royal off a shoal on Feb. 9. U.S.
Navy photo (RELEASED)
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