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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: 2) by leftover on Sunday June 18 2017, @02:35AM (1 child)
Yes. Another plausible sequence is some guys going directly from their bunks into the drink. The photos look to me like a glancing blow rather than the freighter's bow into the side of the tin can. Less damage but still quite an uproar in the middle of the night. Having sotod many a midwatch in CIC, I too wonder how this happened. Container ships are impossible to miss on radar. That close lookouts could see them even on rather dark nights. If nothing else they blot out a lot of horizon and even sky. There is something more to this story, even if we never hear it.
Still feel sick for the crew members. Spam in a can, to borrow a phrase.
Bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 18 2017, @01:22PM
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/06/18/us-navy-calls-off-search-for-7-missing-sailors-several-bodies-found-inside-destroyer.html [foxnews.com]
My first weeks aboard ship, I had this recurring nightmare. I could hear the water rushing past the hull, inches from my pillow. My top bunk put me right at the waterline. I dreamed that water was flooding my berthing area. These men lived my nightmare.
Rest in peace, shipmates. Rest in peace.