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U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel

posted by takyon on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:20AM   
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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• Re:Whelp (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @05:46AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @05:46AM (#526838)

  As with the submarines routinely do hidding under other ships, the destroyer was hiding in the radar shadow of the container ship.
  So even if they royaly screwed up, no, didn't fail to notice the container vessel, just didn't react in time to some issue.

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