NEW YORK — The Navy is commissioning its newest battleship with a bow forged from steel that once held up the World Trade Center.

The USS New York is to be placed in active military service during a ceremony on a Manhattan pier Saturday morning. Naval officials say the steel from the trade center attacked on 9/11 symbolizes that the United States will always persevere.

The $1 billion warship was built near New Orleans by workers who themselves survived Hurricane Katrina.

CAPE MAY, N.J. (AP) — Shortly before 5 a.m. on March 24, Janet Greene's phone rang in her North Carolina home. A light sleeper, she grabbed it on the first ring, knowing it was likely to be from Royal Smith Jr., a commercial fisherman who had two sons with her daughter, Stacy.

"I said, 'Hello, hello?'" she said. "A muffled voice sounded exactly like his. It sounded like he said, 'Hey,' and it just went off into static."

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The 200-foot mast on the monster trimaran that will represent the United States in the America's Cup came crashing down during a sail on the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, snapping in two as it hit the rear beam.

None of the crew were injured in the mishap, which happened some 20 to 30 miles off Point Loma, BMW Oracle Racing helmsman Jimmy Spithill said after the 90-by-90-foot boat was towed back to its downtown berth at dusk.

CAPE MAY, N.J. (AP) — A scallop boat that sank off the New Jersey coast in March, killing six of the seven crew members aboard, may have been doomed by a fatal hit-and-run crash on the high seas, the lawyer for its owner said Monday.

Stevenson Weeks, the lawyer for Lady Mary owner Royal Smith Sr., said extensive damage to the boat's rudder, propeller and other equipment indicates that some other vessel crashed into it and kept going.

Weeks said he based his suspicion on "the nature of the damage and the physics involved."

SYDNEY (AP) — An official says 25 people are missing and 15 have been rescued after a boat sank in remote waters far off the Australian coast.

Rhianne Robson of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said Monday that a merchant ship reached the site near the Cocos Islands some 1,600 miles northwest of Australia and was plucking people from the water.

Robson told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. the authority received distress signals on Sunday from a boat believed to be carrying about 40 people in the remote area, and the nearest ships were asked to respond.

SAN FRANCISCO — Crews worked Saturday to clean up fuel leaked into San Francisco Bay and care for a dozen birds one day after an oil tanker spilled hundreds of gallons into the water.

The Coast Guard dispatched 10 boats to scoop up shipping fuel about 2.5 miles southeast of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. A helicopter surveyed for environmental damage while wildlife crews searched the ground for affected wildlife.