Is the following scenario true?

This is a "joke" that was widely circulated on the Internet in the past, not only in China, but also abroad. Of course, American officials have repeatedly denied that many media conducted investigations that year. This joke can easily be denied, because lighthouses in North America were basically automated in the mid-1990s, and there was almost no radio conversation between lighthouse guards (usually the Coast Guard or other military and law enforcement agencies) and ships. After the Gulf War, the US Army has been widely equipped with GPS positioning equipment. Not to mention an aircraft carrier formation and the most advanced aircraft carrier battle group in the world, it is impossible to distinguish a lighthouse from a ship, and it is impossible not to know that its route will hit Newfoundland.

In fact, it is said that this story comes from a sailing joke that has been circulating for decades. Not only Lincoln, Nimitz, Coral Sea, but even Missouri are the protagonists of this story.

Finally, and most importantly, USS Lincoln was deployed to the Persian Gulf in April, 1995, to carry out the "southern watch" mission of the no-fly zone in Iraq. Although I didn't check the end time of this mission, it is usually at least half a year at a time, that is to say, at 1995, it is basically certain that the aircraft carrier Lincoln is still in the Persian Gulf.

Finally, an article on the official website of the US Navy refuted this rumor (Lighthouse joke). Because this website is inaccessible in China, it is not posted. You can go to Wikipedia.

Finally, although the US Navy and the media have long denied this rumor, this joke does have a far-reaching impact. Even many people in the US military (including the Canadian military) have used this joke as a seasoning for various public and formal speeches for more than ten years, not to mention privately spreading and telling how lively it is.