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Peter Mims, the American sailor who went missing from the U.S.S. Shiloh last week, has been found safe on board the ship An American sailor who was presumed dead following a huge man-overboard search has been found alive after he was discovered to have been hiding in his own ship's engine room for a week.
The ship features a composite deckhouse that hides radar and antennas along with sharp angles that deflect radar signals. The photos also reveal the remains of a deckhouse, a 60ft chunk of the side of the ship, five boilers and even a lightning rod from the mast.