Mexican Navy Ship Hits Brooklyn Bridge, Killing Two on Crew

New York City Fire and Police department boat respond to a Mexican Navy vessel that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on May 17.Photographer: Myles Miller/Bloomberg

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.