{
  "id": 1808402,
  "title": "US Navy destroyer with 300 sailors aboard broke down for 4 days in the Pacific",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/us-navy-destroyer-with-300-sailors-aboard-broke-down-for-4-days-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-18T21:40:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3364486/us-navy-destroyer-300-sailors-aboard-broke-down-4-days-pacific"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A US Navy destroyer with about 300 sailors aboard suffered a major breakdown in the Pacific Ocean last month that left it without power for four days, the Navy confirmed in a statement. The USS Benfold “reported an engineering casualty involving its generators, causing a loss of power” on July 24, Navy spokesman Commander Matthew Comer said in the statement. The breakdown meant the crew went…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}