From Constellation Strike Group Public Affairs
ABOARD USS CONSTELLATION, At Sea (NNS) -- While transiting home on their 21st and final deployment in the Arabian Gulf and after participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom, USS Constellation (CV 64) received a distress call from an Indonesian inter-island ferry boat carrying civilian passengers in the Banda Sea.
USS Milius (DDG 65), also transiting home with the Constellation Strike Group, was in a position to assist, and was tasked by Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 7, embarked on Constellation, to investigate and render assistance to the vessel. Full story