US Navy to Search for Ship Missing off Bahamas

A U.S. Navy vessel was expected to depart on a search for a missing cargo ship that was lost in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Joaquin with 33 crew members on board.   The Apache will be taking equipment and investigators to an area near Crooked Island in the southeastern Bahamas in an attempt to locate the 240 meter cargo ship El Faro and retrieve its data recorder, said Christopher Johnson, for the Naval Sea Systems Command.   The Apache was leaving from Joint...

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