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Monday, July 16, 2012

RIMPAC crews sink former Navy ship Niagara Falls off Kauai

USS Niagara FallsA live-fire exercise sank the former Navy ship Niagara Falls southwest of Kauai on Saturday, the Navy said.

The exercise was part of the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2012 naval exercises.

“These exercises provide important opportunities for realistic at-sea training with live ordnance, conditions that cannot be duplicated otherwise,” Vice Adm. Gerald Beaman, 3rd Fleet commander, said in a statement Sunday.

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