O God of spirits and of all flesh, Who hast trampled down death and overthrown the Devil, and given life to Thy world, do Thou, the same Lord, give rest to the souls of Thy departed servants in a place of brightness, a place of refreshment, a place of repose, where all sickness, sighing, and sorrow have fled away. Pardon every transgression which they have committed, whether by word or deed or thought. For Thou art a good God and lovest mankind; because there is no man who lives yet does not sin, for Thou only art without sin, Thy righteousness is to all eternity, and Thy word is truth.
For Thou are the Resurrection, the Life, and the Repose of Thy servants who have fallen asleep, O Christ our God, and unto Thee we ascribe glory, together with Thy Father, who is from everlasting, and Thine all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever unto ages of ages. Amen.
Memory eternal! Memory eternal! Memory eternal!
Ping. Sad.
Am I to understand that the container ship left the scene? If so, that is against maritime rules and that commander of that ship is in violation and will be taken into custody.
I wouldnt sail on anything with the name Fitzgerald.
As for the civilian ship? They run on nearly skeleton crews. It may have only had an engineer and a helmsman on duty and had a catastrophic failure in it's systems.
Close calls are more common than some realize especially ones who haven't served on a ship. I think while in Brindisi, Italy I was on a 50' UB aka Utility Boat as a T.A.D. engineman on bpoat crew. We had left fleet landing and approached the sea wall when a fog bank hit. A cruise ship passed so close to us we could see the people in their state rooms clearly. It was one second we saw it a few seconds later it was gone. We were just very lucky we weren't hit and the cruise ship was going a pretty good clip inbound in the channel.
We radioed back to the ship what was going on and the ET's with Radar after a few minutes found us and guided us back in to the ship. The next cruise I had the same job and we were in Venice, Italy. We had made runs from ship to fleet landing all day. Navy regs are in daytime a commissioned officer onboard the boat only at night underway. We got a boat officer with a map and no common sense. We knew our route and landmarks. He orders us on a course we knew was wrong by about 60 degrees and it wasn't dark yet. We obeyed and within 15 minutes we heard the screw come out of the water. The Coxin back off and we were in about 2 feet of water. We slowly and gently backed out and assumed the course we knew was correct. Boat O never uttered a word the rest of the night LOL.
I have seen many comments on this thread on how this could have happened, but as a 7th Fleet Sailors station out of Yokosuka, I can tell you that the waters 50 miles outside of the port of Tokyo is a friggin park lots full of containment ships coming and going!
These containment ship Captains and crews of many nations are some of the worst sea drivers on the planet. I have seen these idiots race each other in the Persian Gulf and the Suez Canal. Even in Singapore, they had us anchor a mile away from these ships, so I can understand how this even happened.
Rest In Peace.
Rest in peace.
Eternal Father, Strong to Save (The Navy Hymn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic8zMkYwnq8
Eternal Father, Strong to Save (The Navy Hymn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic8zMkYwnq8
Almighty God, Father of mercies and giver of all comfort; Deal graciously, we pray thee, with all those who mourn, that, casting every care on thee, they may know the consolation of thy love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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RIP.
Well, the FR is equal to Coast to Coast now with all the baseless conjecture. Maybe it would be good to wait for some facts before running off on some NorthKoreanMuzzieConspiracy based on nothing. We don’t know yet if ANY of the reports we’ve gotten are true outside of the fact that there was a collision.
a forum with sailors discussing the subject in technical details AIS tracking maps.
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?/topic/185057-tanker-hits-destoyer-how-is-this-possible/
