The USNS Mercy Hits The Arizona Memorial

So a couple of days after blogging about the USNS Mercy I have more to report.  As it was leaving  port Wednesday morning to head out to sea it, along with one of the tug boats guiding it, ran into the Arizona Memorial.  The Memorial and the ship itself had little to no damage done however the dock area had severe damage and so now the Arizona Memorial can only be looked at by boat at least for the next week or two.  The whole incident is under investigation but the eye witness details are that the ship and one tug ran into the Arizona Memorial.  I had reported that the Mercy is the second longest ship in the Navy and from the eye witness accounts they were trying to turn the ship around in the harbor.  I guess we will not know whose fault it is until the investigation is over.  I hope the Mercy's journey got better after a rough start.