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posted by Fnord666 on Monday August 21 2017, @04:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-US-Navy's-annus-horribilis dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/world/asia/navy-ship-mccain-search-sailors.html

Search teams scrambled Monday to determine the fate of 10 missing Navy sailors after a United States destroyer collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore, the second accident involving a Navy ship and a cargo vessel in recent months.

The guided-missile destroyer, the John S. McCain, was passing east of the Strait of Malacca on its way to a port visit in Singapore at 5:24 a.m. local time, before dawn broke, when it collided with the Alnic MC, a 600-foot vessel that transports oil and chemicals, the Navy said. The destroyer was damaged near the rear on its port, or left-hand, side.

Half a day after the crash, 10 sailors on the ship remained unaccounted for. Five others were injured, none with life-threatening conditions, a Navy official said. Ships with the Singapore Navy and helicopters from the assault ship America were rushing to search for survivors.

Also at Reuters.

Previously: U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @11:51PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @11:51PM (#557290)

    Looks like the Navy doesn't have to follow COLREGs:

    Nothing in these Rules shall interfere with the operation of any special
    rules made by the Secretary of the Navy with respect to additional station or
    signal lights and shapes or whistle signals for ships of war and vessels
    proceeding under convoy, or by the Secretary with respect to additional
    station or signal lights and shapes for fishing vessels engaged in fishing as
    a fleet. These additional station or signal lights and shapes or whistle
    signals shall, so far as possible, be such that they cannot be mistaken for
    any light, shape, or signal authorized elsewhere under these Rules. Notice
    of such special rules shall be published in the Federal Register and, after
    the effective date specified in such notice, they shall have effect as if they
    were a part of these Rules.

    http://navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/navRules/navrules.pdf [uscg.gov]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @11:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @11:55PM (#557292)

    *COLREGS