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 | | The damage to the ship was severe, including holing of the mast, destruction of two life rafts, severing of the emergency power cable and fragment damage above the 01 Level. |
 | | Below decks, the ships gyro was destroyed by the bomb forward, which also damaged the diving locker and bulkheads. |
 | | Enterprise then participated in Exercise Cope Thunder (22 May1 June 1978), pausing in the midst of it to conduct a mission of mercy: the rescue of 13 Vietnamese refugees, known as boat people, from their sinking sampan about 90 miles west of Luzon, Philippines, on 27 May 1978. |
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