Honestly, with the recent two ship collisions out of the blue and the NKorean military exercises awaiting us for this week...this all sounds like a foreign attack on Navy ships. I think they are keeping something from us.
Right, the Navy is waiting for some never ending investigation without changing the command...it proves they don't know the true conditions of the fleet. You need a big cleaning of the house operation...
OMG: The Navy's ship slaughter houses.
NYTs:Ten Navy sailors were missing and five were injured on Monday after a United States destroyer collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore, the Navy said, the second accident involving a Navy ship and a cargo vessel in recent months.
This is really bad. A destroyer is a lot smaller than a cruiser. I was stationed on the old McCain around 1975. It was a rust bucket.
It hit a gigantic oil tanker? They are searching for survivors in the seas? I can't imagine searching for survivors with the oil tanker...oil floats. The ship would never sink. I think we are searching Navy sailors again.
We got a giant multi agency investigation going on with the Fitzgerald.
I am watching "The Last Ship" ship tonight at 9pm.
It is looking much worst:US Navy destroyer and merchant ship collide near Singapore
Posted: Sunday, August 20, 2017 6:12 pm
US Navy destroyer and merchant ship collide near Singapore Associated Press
SINGAPORE (AP) — A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer has collided with a merchant ship in waters east of Singapore and the Straits of Malacca.
The Navy's 7th Fleet says that the USS John S. McCain sustained damage on its port side from the collision with the Alnic MC on Monday at 5:24 a.m.
Search and rescue efforts were underway in coordination with local authorities. There were no initial reports of injuries.
It is the second collision involving a Navy ship in the Pacific in two months. Seven sailors died in June when the USS Fitzgerald and a container ship hit each other in waters off Japan.
The Japan-based 7th fleet said the McCain was heading to Singapore for a routine port visit.
The McCain’s sailors are fighting flooding in two crew berthings and in shaft alley, which is a space aft of the main engineering spaces where a shafts that rotate the ship’s propellers run through.
The presence of flooding below the waterline indicates that the bow of the Alnic MC punched a hole in the side of McCain, as happened to Fitzgerald earlier this year. The ship’s propulsion has been limited but it is making way.
The collision with the Liberian-flagged merchant vessel Alnic MC happened while the U.S. ship was underway east of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca at 6:24 a.m. local time, according to Navy officials. Unlike the collision between the destroyer Fitzgerald and the ACX Crystal off Japan in June, most of the crew would be up and moving around at that time.
Its communications were still operational, and the amphibious assault ship America was making best speed to help the stricken McCain, according to a Navy official who spoke on background.
The Navy’s top officer tweeted that the safety Navy’s first priority.
“Our first priority is determining the safety of the ship and crew,” Adm. John Richardson tweeted. ”As more information is learned, we will share it.”
The destroyer was en route to a routine port visit in Singapore.
The merchant vessel is a Liberian-flagged oil and chemical tanker, according to the Marine Traffic web site.
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