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Seventeen sailors were housed in berthing 5, a 15-foot wide space that was compacted into a five-foot sliver. The report suggests that the 10 who died either drowned or were crushed by the impact....
Aug 6, 2019 · At 0524, the vessels collided. As a result of the collision, 10 John S McCain sailors died, 48 were injured, and the vessel sustained over $100 million in damage. No one was injured on the Alnic MC, and the vessel sustained about $225,000 in damage. There was no report of pollution.
Aug 21, 2017 · By Peter Martinez. Updated on: August 21, 2017 / 2:35 AM EDT / CBS News. The USS John S. McCain, a guided-missile destroyer, was involved in a collision early Monday with a oil tanker...
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Aug 21, 2017 · Daniel Chan, AP. A general view shows the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain with a hole on its left portside after a collision with oil tanker, outside Changi naval base in...
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — A Navy report details death, destruction and heroism on the USS John S. McCain after an Aug. 21 collision with an oil tanker killed 10 sailors near Singapore....
10 sailors on USS John S. McCain. At 5:24 a.m. on 21 August 2017, USS John S. McCain, a United States Navy warship, was involved in a collision with the Liberian-flagged tanker Alnic MC off the coast of Singapore and Malaysia, east of the Strait of Malacca. [1] [2] [3] According to a U.S. Navy press release, the breach "resulted in flooding to ...
Aug 21, 2018 · Last year, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) collided with a merchant ship while approaching Singapore, an incident that resulted in the death of 10 sailors and prompted the Navy to take a hard look at how it operates and trains crews on forward-deployed ships.
