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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The commanders of two US Navy ships involved in collisions that left 17 sailors dead face charges including negligent homicide and dereliction of duty, the Navy said on Tuesday. The USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker in August 2017, killing 10 sailors, while the USS Fitzgerald smashed into a cargo ship in June, leaving seven dead. “Courts-martial proceedings/Article 32 hearings are being convened to review evidence supporting […]
YOKOSUKA, Japan (Reuters) – More than two thousand people in Yokosuka participated in a memorial service held on Tuesday (June 27) for the seven sailors who died when the USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship. Participants, who included local residents, United States and Japanese military personnel, lined the streets and saluted a row of buses and cars carrying the family members and shipmates of the seven dead sailors, according to the US Navy. Multiple US […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The United States Navy will hold a memorial service Tuesday for seven sailors killed in a collision with a cargo ship off the coast of Japan this month. The private gathering is being held at a naval base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, the home port of badly damaged destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald, a navy spokesman said. The sailors’ relatives, their 300 shipmates on the guided-missile destroyer and US military officials […]
(Eagle News) — One of the seven US sailors killed in the sea mishap between a US destroyer and a Philippine flagged container ship was a Filipino-American from Chula Vista, California who felt that serving in the Navy was his “calling.” Fire Controlman 2nd Class Carlos Victor Ganzon Sibayan, 23, was among the US sailors recovered after a severely damaged USS Fitzgerald returned to a US Navy base in Yokosuka, Japan aided by tugboats. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The United States Navy on Monday identified all seven sailors killed after their destroyer was partially flooded following a collision with a container ship off Japan’s coast at the weekend, confirming their deaths for the first time. The crew were reported missing after Saturday’s predawn collision, triggering a major US-Japanese search operation, with divers scouring damaged areas of the destroyer. On Sunday, US authorities tacitly acknowledged there were no survivors as […]
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AFP) — A number of missing American sailors have been found dead in flooded areas of a destroyer that collided with a container ship off Japan’s coast, the US Navy said Sunday. Seven sailors had been missing for more than 24 hours after the accident that caused heavy damage to the USS Fitzgerald, caving in part of its right side and flooding berthing spaces and the radio room. “A number of […]
