Daily Mail: New catastrophe for US Navy as ten sailors go missing when destroyer collides with an oil tanker, just two months after USS Fitzgerald smashed into Filipino cargo ship drowning seven crew
* Ten sailors are missing and five were injured after the USS John S McCain was involved in a collision with a 600-foot oil tanker on Monday morning
* The US guided-missile destroyer collided with merchant vessel Alnic MC at 5.24am east of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca
* The Alnic MC, an oil tanker, is 600feet long and the John McCain is 505feet long
* After collision, the John McCain sailed under its own power and headed to port
* Crew reportedly fought flooding in two crew berthings and the 'shaft alley'
* John McCain sustained damage to port side aft, or the left rear, of the ship
* This is the second collision involving a ship from the Navy's 7th Fleet in the Pacific in two months
* The USS Fitzgerald and a container ship hit each other in waters off Japan in June
Ten sailors are missing and five were injured after the USS John S McCain was involved in a collision with a 600-foot oil tanker on Monday morning, the Navy has said.
The collision between the US guided-missile destroyer and merchant vessel Alnic MC was reported at 5.24am local time.
The John McCain was underway east of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca, on its way to a routine port visit in Singapore after conducting a sensitive freedom of navigation operation last week by sailing near one of China's man-made islands in the South China Sea.
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3 nations search for U.S. sailors missing after collision -- CBS
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