International Airport by helicopter yesterday morning.

The sailor was taken to King Edward Memorial VII Hospital for treatment of a minor shoulder injury.

The Spruance-class guided missile destroyer Moosbrugger came to Bermuda to pick up some civilian families of the crew.

The families will sail back to the US with their fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who are sailors on board the Moosbrugger and experience sea life with the Tiger Cruise programme.

The programme puts civilian families on US Navy ships and allows them to cruise back to the US -- spending time with naval personnel and learn about life at sea.

The 8,000-ton destroyer made the crew transfer then left Bermuda yesterday evening.