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 carrying capacity.

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 ...

The crippled USS Cole was towed out of the Yemeni port of Aden yesterday for a rendezvous ... The Navy is paying $4.5 million to use the Blue Marlin. A few of the Cole’s 300 crew members will ...

The starboard propeller and shaft of the damaged destroyer USS Cole dwarf this sailor on board the MV Blue Marlin on December 13, 2000. The Cole was being transported to the United States by the ...

MV Blue Marlin transporting USS Cole from Yemen following the 2000 attack on the ship. US Navy Photo “The Cole was largely engineering, ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The USS Cole can be fixed -- at a cost of $150 million to $170 million, according to the Pentagon's latest estimates. Navy officials said divers have found no irreparable ...

The men who bombed the USS Cole got help from Yemeni officials who fought with them in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the Associated Press reported Monday as the crippled ship began a five-week trip ...

While refueling in the port of Aden, Yemen, USS Cole was rocked by a devastating suicide bombing that tore a massive hole in its steel hull, testing the ship's survivability and the crew’s ...