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Title    10 Sailors Still Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collision With Oil Tanker
Date    Monday August 21 2017, @04:37PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the the-US-Navy's-annus-horribilis dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/08/21/1618257

takyon writes:

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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  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "Reuters" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-navy-crash-idUSKCN1B100C
  3. "U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel" - https://soylentnews.org/breakingnews/article.pl?sid=17/06/17/0115235
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=21881

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