USS John S McCain Collision

[painter777]

The USS John S McCain a Guided Missile Destroyer was in collision east of Singapore in the Straight of Malacca.
Search and rescue is underway, with 10 sailors missing and 5 injured as currently reported.
Collision was with a commercial merchant ship named Alnic MC, which I believed is a Liberian flagged vessel.
Reports indicate John S. McCain sustained damage to her port side aft, and that a search and rescue mission was already underway.

The ship is currently sailing under its own power and heading to port, according to a Navy statement.

It is named after Senator McCain's Grand Father and his Father.

I believe this is the 4th collision of a 7th fleet vessel this year in this general area.

Prayers that the missing are found alive.

Charlie-Painter777

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[Cosine26]

According to preliminary reports, the USS McCain was struck in the port side aft by an oiler. If so the oiler should have been the "give way" vessel according to the Rules of the Road.
According to reports, ten sailors are missing.

[AZPhil]

That is terrible news but what I find most disturbing is that this happened again.

A ship that is an advanced radar guided missile destroyer with the latest surveillance type radars and they keep colliding with these huge cargo vessels.
I also hope for the best with the sailors that are missing
Semper Fi
Phil

[CINDERS]

10 sailors from the destroyer missing so far, there is something lacking here how a fast vessel can be run over by a lumbering giant....................!

[mrclark303]

Terrible business. Let's all hope the missing are all found soon.

Unfortunately the chance's of finding them alive is looking increasingly unlikely...

[Ovidio]

Being no sailor, I really can't understand how such things can happen.
It is beyond my understanding, given the high-tech installed on any such vessel.
In any case, now the only thing to do is to pray for the missing sailors and for their families.
May God be with them!

[Bob Womack]

Als onot a sailor but with four collisions in the Western Pacific since the beginning of the year I think this has moved above the ship's captain level and to the operational management level.

Bob

[Sarge1998]

Als onot a sailor but with four collisions in the Western Pacific since the beginning of the year I think this has moved above the ship's captain level and to the operational management level.

Bob

Fleet wide training as well as command, the bright spot with the Fitzgerald was the core group of senior Petty Officers apparently rallied the crew in various areas to save personnel and perform damage control to save the ship. IMO the previous administration systematically stripped the readiness and ability of our military with the intention that failures would occur. You don't hear about these incident with other navies are they occurring and we are just not being informed or have we slipped that far?

[browningautorifle]

You don't hear about these incident with other navies

We had a couple over the past years, I think everyone heard about them though...

[Flying10uk]

In the high profile incidents in recent months involving collisions of U.S. Navy ships in which there has been loss of life and serious damage to ship we should give credit to the professional way that the ordinary American sailor has acted to save their ship.

Most if not all navies around the world have had "incidents" over the years that they would rather had not happened and would prefer to forget. Because the U.S. Navy is significantly larger than say the Royal Navy, statistically, the U.S. Navy is likely to have more such "incidents" than the Royal Navy or other smaller navies.