Official Navy release of Collision helps clarify.
Additionally, if sailors went overboard because of the collision, they could could have sucked into the propellors or run over by either ship involved.
People need to pray for the sailors.
Look at the story from the British newspaper.
The cargo ship was making some pretty erratic moves just prior to the collision.
The photos also show that this wasn’t a “T-Bone” crash. I would call it a “glancing” crash.
Prayers for those injured or killed in this collision.
Prayers for the lost and injured sailors.
In related news:
Navy to save money by abandoning man overboard rescues
http://www.duffelblog.com/2017/06/navy-man-overboard/
A couple of things:
Damage was on the starboard (right) side of the ship. From the perspective of ‘Rules of the Road’, it means the ship hitting the naval vessel had ‘right of way’, or was ‘stand-on vessel’.
Captain had to be on the bridge wing, or thereabouts.
What is not in the article is germaine - what was the damage to the other vessel? What was the flag? What was the cargo, if any?
One of the more interesting axis of attack by a non-flag adversary would be hijacking a merchant ship, capturing the crew, and then using the ship to ram naval ships.
A Navy ship wouldn’t be able to defend against the attack. The merchant ship would be using their Automatic Identification System (AIS). You don’t even have to be on bridge to bridge radio anymore. Just put the waypoints into the Plotter, and it talks to the AIS.
Hijack the boat, get close to the naval vessel, then ram it.
Normally, you can’t get within 500 yards of ANY Navy ship.
There is so much missing here.
Confirmed the 7 missing sailors are confirmed dead..their bodies were found inside the Navy Destroyer..my condolences to their families
Just saw on abc news while looking for a video of the merchant ship doing a 180 and slamming into the destroyer
our sailors were found inside the flooded berthing compartments. There was also damage under the water line not seen by the videos on tv.
Too depressed to start another thread. Prayers in empathy for the families and friends.
People need to stop naming ships “Fitzgerald,” too. There was the Edmund Fitzgerald, and now this. Seems to be a bit of a Jonah.