{"id":346556,"date":"2017-08-21T06:20:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T06:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=346556"},"modified":"2017-08-21T06:20:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T06:20:39","slug":"us-navy-ship-and-oil-tanker-collide-off-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/us-navy-ship-and-oil-tanker-collide-off-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy ship and oil tanker collide off Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ten sailors are missing and five have been injured after a US destroyer and an oil tanker collided off the coast of Singapore, the US Navy says.<\/p>\n
The guided missile destroyer USS John S McCain was sailing east of Singapore and preparing to stop in the port when the collision with the Liberian-flagged vessel occurred.<\/p>\n
A wide-ranging rescue and rescue operation is under way.<\/p>\n
It is the second collision involving a US Navy ship in recent months.<\/p>\n
The collision was reported before dawn at 05:24 local time on Monday (21:24 GMT on Sunday) and took place in the Strait of Singapore, as the USS John S McCain prepared to perform a routine port stop in Singapore.<\/p>\n
Singapore and US authorities said the destroyer sustained damage to her port side, which is the left-hand side of the vessel facing forward.<\/p>\n
The chief of the Malaysian navy, Adm Ahmad Kamarulzaman Ahmad Badaruddin, has tweeted a picture appearing to show the US vessel with a hole at the rear.<\/p>\n
The tanker it collided with, Alnic MC, sustained damage to a tank near the front of the ship 7m (23ft) above the waterline, but none of its crew were injured and there were no oil spills.<\/p>\n
The tanker has a tonnage of 30,000 which is about three times that of the USS John S McCain’s, and at 600ft (182m) it is slightly longer than the 505ft-long US destroyer.<\/p>\n
US military helicopters as well as the Singaporean and Malaysian navies and coast guards are currently conducting search and rescue operations.<\/p>\n