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Navy/USMC

Navy’s First DDG-1000 Destroyer Sidelined by Engineering Problem

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016

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Navy’s First DDG-1000 Destroyer Sidelined by Engineering Problem

The U.S. Navy's new DDG-1000 destroyer visits Baltimore for its commissioning ceremony. (Photo by Marc Selinger/Defense Daily)

The U.S. Navy’s first DDG-1000 destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, experienced an engineering casualty during a trip from the East Coast to the West Coast and is currently moored in Panama, service officials said Nov. 23.The ship, which was commissioned in Baltimore last month, was passing through the Panama Canal on its way to its homeport of Naval Base San Diego when the casualty occurred.Vice Adm. Nora Tyson, commander of U.S. Third Fleet, told the ship “to remain at ex-Naval Station…

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