A bigger ship. The damaged USS Cole, a 505-foot-long vessel weighing 6,767 tons without its crew, is a lightweight for the transport vessel Blue Marlin, with its 584-foot cargo deck and 30,000-ton ...

Dec. 13, 2000 -- The USS Cole, the missile destroyer damaged ... A Norwegian-owned heavy-lift ship, the Blue Marlin, transported the vessel to Litton Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Blue Marlin, a giant high-tech tow ship on a mission to pick up the crippled Navy destroyer USS Cole, is scheduled to arrive in Aden, Yemen, on Saturday, a Pentagon ...

But sources told CNN plans call for the Blue Marlin, escorted by another U.S. warship, the USS Donald Cook, to carry the USS Cole around the tip of Africa, a distance of 10,700 nautical miles.

MV Blue Marlin transporting USS Cole from Yemen following the 2000 attack on the ship. US Navy Photo A U.S. military airstrike on New Year’s Day reportedly killed Jamal al-Badawi, who helped ...

The Blue Marlin is outfitted with 38 cabins, accommodates 60 people, and even features a workout room, sauna and swimming facilities. No wonder it’s the ship the Navy tapped for the USS Cole ...

Bower said it was a tense three weeks before the USS Cole was stable and ready for transit on the Blue Marlin, a floating dry dock that slowly floated the ship home. When it was finally time to ...

MV Blue Marlin transporting USS Cole from Yemen following the 2000 attack on the ship. US Navy Photo “The Cole was largely engineering, and it’s electronics that gets you,” retired Navy ...

The men who bombed the USS Cole got help from Yemeni officials ... the United States aboard the Norwegian ship Blue Marlin, which was carrying the Cole on its deck. The ships sailed from waters ...

ADEN, Yemen, Oct. 29 -- Seventeen days after the most modern destroyer in the U.S. fleet was attacked during a brief refueling stop, the USS Cole ... the Blue Marlin, more than 20 miles offshore.