The US Navy released a report detailing the events and actions that led to the collision of USS Fitzgerald and ACX Crystal on 17 June, and the collision of USS John S. McCain and merchant vessel Alnic MC, on 21 August. The report concludes that both incidents were avoidable and resulted from lack of procedural compliance.
Read moreSailors from the guided-missile 'USS Howard' came to the aid to the crew of an Iranian fishing dhow, that was attacked by pirates, south of the island of Socotra near the Gulf of Aden, as seen in video published by US naval Institute.
Read moreAddressing the US navy on 6 October, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson focused on the results of the operational pause ordered after two fatal collisions in the Western Pacific that resulted in the death of 17 sailors.
Read moreFollowing deadly collisions of US warships, CNO Richardson noted that it is very hard to understand how navy ships collide, despite the sophisticated systems onboard and the lookouts on the bridge. Part of the problem, he stressed, isn’t the Navy’s ability to see the others, but everyone else’s ability to spot Navy ships.
Read moreThe US warship "John S. McCain" will be transported via heavy lift, from Changi Naval Base in Singapore, to the US Navy's Ship Repair Facility-Japan Regional Maintenance Center in Yokosuka, Japan. The lift is notionally planned for late September.
Read moreThe US Department of Transportation Maritime Administration has deployed two National Defense Reserve Fleet vessels for a pre-scripted Federal Emergency Management Agency mission, to support recovery operations after Harvey hurricane in Texas.
Read moreIn the past few weeks, a US Navy destroyer collided fatally with a huge commercial vessel. This is a very rare event which actually happened twice in a short period of time during this summer. In view of this, maritime experts presented considerations into the possible misleads that lead to these incidents.
Read moreUS Navy announced that marine corps divers have now recovered the remains of all ten missing navy sailors, following the fatal collision between USS John S McCain warship and Alnic MC tanker, off Singapore, on 21 August.
Read moreThe US navy announced that the divers searching for the USS McCain's missing crew have recovered the remains of one Sailor, confirmed as Electronics Technician 3rd Class Kenneth Aaron Smith, 22, from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Nine crew men are still unaccounted for.
Read moreThe US navy decided an operational pause of it fleet around the world, to review navigational safety issues, after the collision of the US warship John S McCain that resulted in ten missing and five injured sailors.
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