Trump's Navy in crisis as another warship breaks down with sailors going FOUR DAYS without food, water and toilets

Donald Trump's Navy is facing renewed scrutiny after a warship lost all power while deployed in the South China Sea, stranding sailors without drinkable water, food, air conditioning or working toilets for four days.

A generator failure aboard the USS Benfold on July 24 left the destroyer without power. 

Other Navy ships were called in to provide meals to the crew as the Benfold was towed to port in the Philippines, where sailors were put up in shore housing.

Full power was not restored until July 30 and no injuries have been reported.

The Navy did not disclose the incident for nearly a month, according to The Washington Post.

The outage comes as the Trump administration faces criticism over extended carrier deployments in the Middle East, including that of the USS Abraham Lincoln, where reports of desperate sailors throwing themselves aboard have angered military families.

Navy families have described collapsing morale and suicidal ideation on the ship, with one sailor's wife telling Navy Times her severely burned-out husband attempted to jump overboard.

The Benfold was part of the USS George Washington's strike group, which was en route to the Middle East to relieve the Lincoln. 

The Daily Mail has contacted the Pentagon for comment. 

When confronted last week with the fears of military families over conditions on the USS Lincoln, Trump flatly denied those fears existed: 'Well, no, that ship is moving. No, they're not.'

'That ship is moving right now, or very shortly, and it's being replaced with another very similar ship,' Trump added. The USS George Washington warship is now steaming toward the Middle East to relieve the Lincoln in a swap officials insist was already planned.

Asked whether the deployment had simply gone on too long, the president shot back: 'No. Not nearly long enough.'

Since the start of Trump's war, reports have surfaced of food shortages and rationing aboard the Lincoln, accompanied by grim images of sailors' meals.

Hegseth, meanwhile, has denied that conditions on the Lincoln are severe: 'Listen, we make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment.'

Eighteen US service members have died in Iranian strikes across the region since the war began in February, with hundreds more wounded. 

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has called for a congressional visit to the ship to ensure that conditions for sailors are humane.