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Engineers Tried for Hours to Restart the “Dead” Warship — Then the Admiral Called a Retired Sailor No One Remembered

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The USS Gerald R. Ford had been silent for three days.

One hundred thousand tons of the most advanced warship ever constructed sat motionless at Norfolk Naval Station, her nuclear turbines cold and unresponsive, her decks bristling with engineers who had run out of answers. From the pier, Captain William Evans could see the ship’s superstructure rising continue reading …

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