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On the destroyer field
At least 10 American sailors are missing, five were injured as a result of a collision of the American destroyer John S. McCain with the library tanker Alnic MC. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the command of the seventh US fleet.
The incident occurred at 06:24 TO TOKIO (00:24 Moscow time) east of the Strait and Singapore Malacca. As a result of the collision, the destroyer is damaged by feed. According to the seventh fleet, the destroyer independently moves to the port.
Together with local authorities, search and rescue work is underway. In the area there are a military ship of the Singapore Navy and tugboats. The situation is controlled from the air by helicopters, as well as the American military aircraft MV-22 OSPreys and SH-60S Sea Hawks.
At the time of the collision on board the Alnic MC, which was traveling from Taiwan to Singapore, there were almost 12 thousand tons of oil. As a result of the collision, the tanker received damage, but the water pollution did not occur.
The destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) is assigned to the US Navy in Yokosuk in Japan. The ship was laid in 1991 in 1999 commissioned. The crew of the destroyer is 337 people. The ship is in service with the Tomagavk missiles, artillery, rockets, anti-aircraft guns, anti-submarine and mine-torpedo installations. Also on board the destroyer is the SH-60 LAMPS multi-purpose helicopter.
The destroyer is named after John S. McCain the Elder and John S. McCain the Younger, two US Navy Admirals. They, accordingly, go to the grandfather and father of the US Senator John McCain. "Cindy (wife of McCain. - Ed.) And I pray for the sailors of the ship USS John S. McCain and are grateful to search and rescue crews for work," the senator wrote on Twitter.
On the night of June 18, the result of a collision of a destroyer of the seventh American Fitzgerald fleet with the Philippine Crystal merchant ship, seven US sailors died off the coast of Japan, and three were injured. The American ship received two holes below the waterline; The radio room was flooded and the auxiliary machine.