BREAKING: Destroyer USS John S. McCain COLLIDES with merchant ship, TEN SAILORS MISSING…

This is just horrible. Just a few weeks after the last destroyer collided with a ship, we have this.

A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer collided with a merchant ship early Monday in waters east of Singapore and the Straits of Malacca, and search and rescue efforts were underway.

There were no initial reports of injuries.

The USS John S. McCain sustained damage on its port side aft, or left rear, from the collision with the Alnic MC that happened at 5:24 a.m., the Navy’s 7th Fleet said.

It is the second collision involving a ship from the Navy’s 7th Fleet 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.

McCain tweeted about it:

Unfortunately, the AP is reporting 10 are missing:

Let’s hope and pray they’re found safe.


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