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