Carrier Truman conducts flight operations after completing repairs from collision

Repairs have been completed on collision damage, shown here, to aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman . (US Navy)

Aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75) got under way on 24 February to conduct routine flight operations in the US 6th Fleet area of operations after departing Souda Bay, Greece, on 23 February, following completion of an emergent repair availability (ERAV), the US Navy (USN) confirmed in a statement on 24 February.

Truman arrived at US Naval Support Activity (NSA) Souda Bay on 16 February to conduct an ERAV on the ship's starboard quarter damage from the carrier's collision on 12 February with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M at about 2346 h local time, while operating near Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea.

For more information about the collision repairs, please seeUpdate: Truman should continue deployment as scheduled after emergent repairs, carrier commanding officer says .

Damage assessed includes the exterior wall of two storage rooms and a maintenance space, the USN reported. External to the ship, damage assessed includes a line handling space, the fantail, and the platform above one of the storage spaces. Aircraft elevator number three sustained no damage and is fully operational. Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center (FDRMC) will lead the pierside ERAV, including an assessment and follow-on repairs to damages sustained.

“We are out here launching and recovering aircraft,” Captain Christopher Hill, Truman commanding officer, said in a statement. “Our ship remains operationally ready to complete deployment.”

Truman entered the Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility (AOR) on 14 December 2024 and was acknowledged by CENTCOM in a 12 January statement to be operating in the Red Sea in mid-January “as part of ongoing operations in the region”.