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U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel

posted by takyon on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the 7th-fleet's-bad-week dept.

takyon writes:

A U.S. Navy vessel has collided with a container vessel southwest of Yokosuka, Japan:

Seven U.S. sailors are unaccounted for after a Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship southwest of Yokosuka, Japan, early Saturday local time, a U.S. official and the Navy said.

Some flooding was reported aboard the USS Fitzgerald, a 505-foot destroyer, after the collision with a Philippine container vessel at approximately 2:30 a.m. Saturday local time (1:30 p.m. ET Friday), about 56 nautical miles of Yokosuka, the U.S. 7th Fleet said.

Also at Reuters.

mrpg wrote in with another story about a U.S. Navy sailor who was reported missing and presumed dead after a search by the Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and Japan's Coast Guard. He was found days later, hiding in one of the engine rooms.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:40AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:40AM (#526732)

    As per http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40310563 [bbc.co.uk]: currently 7 missing
    Also, nice picture there...

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by anubi on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:50AM

    by anubi (2828) on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:50AM (#526735) Journal

    Also, nice picture there...

    Full of radar domes.... uhh missed the radar domes by 100 feet or so?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:55AM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:55AM (#526739) Journal

    Amidship-Starboard-on-navy to bow-port-on freighter.
    Head on approach, last minute turn, and someone made a bad decision.
    Glancing blow I'd guess.

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    • (Score: 1) by tftp on Saturday June 17 2017, @04:25AM

      by tftp (806) on Saturday June 17 2017, @04:25AM (#526815) Homepage

      Not being a sailor, I had to decode your comment a bit. Here is the Wikipedia link [wikipedia.org] with a picture. In it the pink ship (here the Navy) was supposed to yield to the yellow (container) ship. The latter was not required to change course; probably it even couldn't do that in time, when it became apparent that the Navy ship isn't turning or stopping.

      Also [uscg.gov]:

      Rule 15 - Crossing Situation
      (a) When two power-driven vessels are crossing so as to involve risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way and shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other vessel.

      As I can see from these rules, it's hard to imagine the situation when, short of a special agreement between captains, the container ship with mass that is easily 10x of the destroyer and having it on the port side would be expected to yield.