WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy will no longer accompany commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz as tensions -- sparked by an Iranian patrol boat seizing a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship last month -- die down.
The USS Farragut, a guided missile destroyer, and three Cyclone-class coast patrol boats, were deployed to the narrow channel of water between Iran and Oman on Thursday to protect U.S. commercial vessels as they passed through.