NEW YORK (AP) — A Mexican navy ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday throughout a promotional tour in New York Metropolis, the highest of its mast brushing the long-lasting span because it sailed by the East River.
The New York Hearth Division press desk confirmed that authorities had been responding to accidents however had no particulars about how many individuals may need been harm or whether or not they had been on the vessel or on the bridge.
Eyewitness video of the collision that was posted on-line confirmed the mast of the ship, which was flying a large inexperienced, white and pink Mexican flag, scraping the beneath of the bridge. The vessel then drifted towards the sting of the river as onlookers scrambled away from shore.
The Mexican navy mentioned in a publish on the social platform X that the Cuauhtemoc, an academy coaching vessel, was broken in an accident with the Brooklyn Bridge that prevented it from persevering with its voyage.
It added that the standing of personnel and materials was below assessment by naval and native authorities, which had been offering help.
“The Secretary of the Navy renews its dedication to the protection of personnel, transparency in its operations and wonderful coaching for future officers of the Mexican Armada,” it mentioned in Spanish.
The Cuauhtemoc — about 297 ft lengthy and 40 ft broad (90.5 meters lengthy and 12 meters broad), in keeping with the Mexican Navy — sailed for the primary time in 1982. Every year it units out on the finish of lessons on the naval army college to complete cadets’ coaching.
This yr it left the Mexican port of Acapulco, on the Pacific coast, on April 6 with 277 folks onboard, the Navy mentioned then.
The ship was scheduled to go to 22 ports in 15 nations, together with Kingston, Jamaica; Havana, Cuba; Cozumel, Mexico; and New York.
It had additionally deliberate to go to Reykjavik, Iceland; Bordeaux, Saint Malo and Dunkirk, France; and Aberdeen, Scotland, amongst others, for a complete of 254 days — 170 at sea and 84 in port.
