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US Navy warship loses power and propulsion after ‘electrical malfunction’

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by Filip Timotija - 05/01/26 1:14 PM ET

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A U.S. Navy warship lost power and propulsion after suffering from an “electrical malfunction” while sailing in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command region.

CBS News reported that a fire broke out aboard the USS Higgins on Tuesday.

Cmdr. Matthew Comer, a spokesperson for the U.S. 7th Fleet, said in a statement to The Hill that the electrical malfunction may have produced “sparking or smoke that ceased once power was removed.”

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer experienced an “engineering casualty” to its “electrical distribution system,” he said.

There were no injuries to the crew onboard and the power has been restored to the ship, which was commissioned in 1999, Comer added. Investigations of the incident are ongoing.

The vessel, which carries about 300 sailors and is homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, lost power and propulsion for several hours, CNN reported, citing a Defense official.

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower had a small fire break out in April, injuring several sailors, the U.S. Naval Institute reported. The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, had a fire occur in its laundry spaces, which injured two sailors.

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