It’s hard to believe this could happen again. But now, just two months after the Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship off Japan, killing seven sailors, another destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, collided with a chemical tanker off Singapore, with ten sailors missing at sea.
The John S. McCain is a guided-missile destroyer, with some of the most advanced electronics in the world. It collided with a 600-foot tanker in the highly-trafficked Strait of Malacca. The tanker hit the McCain fairly far aft on its port side. Other American vessels and ships from the Singapore Navy are searching for survivors.
Here’s a thorough story from The New York Times, immediately below. Then there’s a second link to a story from the U.S. Naval Institute, which has a lot of information from the Navy’s perspective:
