Mexican Navy Ship Hits Brooklyn Bridge, Killing Two on Crew (1)

May 18, 2025, 3:39 PM UTC

A Mexican naval vessel carrying 277 people scraped the bottom of the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening, leaving two crew members dead.

The tall ship Cuauhtémoc “lost power and crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a post on X early Sunday. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the deaths and expressed condolences in another post on X. The Mexican Navy said 22 people aboard were injured, 11 of them critically.

A Mexican naval vessel carrying 277 people scraped the bottom of the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening, leaving two crew members dead and several others injured. Source: Bloomberg

The 270-foot Cuauhtémoc — an academy training vessel — was in New York as part of a global annual tour, ...

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