I believe it was the other way around, the tanker was the one that hit the Navy ship.
The tanker may have done so (I’m still waiting for more confirmation on that) but it looks like it was the other way around on the immediately prior collision incident with the freighter.
The thing is, there is no way in hell that either of those collisions should have happened if someone was paying attention on the bridge of the destroyer and keeping a lookout. Reportedly there were no weather conditions degrading visibility and destroyers are fast, highly maneuverable oceangoing vessels.
Both this and the prior incident are like driving around in a go-kart on a giant, perfectly flat parking lot that’s a half mile on a side, with the only other occupant of the parking lot being a large ice cream truck that’s been traveling in a straight line at 2mph. Somehow you manage to hit or be hit by the ice cream truck even though it didn’t deviate from its straightline course and didn’t accelerate.