"The US Navy tanker USNS Big Horn ran aground and partially flooded off the coast of Oman, leaving the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group without a main fuel source," gCaptain reports. It notes that no one was injured,

The USNS Big Horn was traveling with an aircraft carrier strike group nearby when it suffered an undisclosed “incident” and began to flood.

The delicate rescue mission aimed to head off a major environmental disaster after the oil tanker was attacked by Houthi rebels off the coast of Yemen last month.

A U.S. Navy refueling ship has been damaged during an incident in the Middle East, the Navy said Tuesday. A Navy official told The Hill that the USNS Big Horn, a replenishment oiler, “sustained damage while operating at sea” overnight Monday in the 5th Fleet area of responsibility that covers the Middle East.

The sole Navy fuel ship that’s serving the San Diego-based USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group in the Middle East suffered damage while operating off the coast of Oman on Monday, according to Military.

A US Navy replenishment ship, the USNS Big Horn, sustained damage after refueling vessels in the Middle East, according to officials on Tuesday. The ship had just resupplied the USS Abraham Lincoln, which remains deployed in the region amid ongoing tensions related to the Israel-Hamas conflict and Israeli operations targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon.