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To: GATOR NAVY
June 20, 1992 Straits of Malacca USS INGERSOLL collided with oil tanker M/V MATSUMI MARU NR.7 after the destroyer's crew misread the oil tanker's running lights.


While returning from her Arabian Gulf deployment KINKAID collided with M/V KOTA PETANI in the Strait of Malacca. Fires broke out aboard both ships with the KOTA PETANI sustaining major damage as a result. The collision caused $15 million damage to KINKAID.


Been in any close calls yourself Gator?

74 posted on 07/09/2004 10:43:57 AM PDT by Light Speed
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To: Light Speed

All that ocean out there and ships still manage to run into each other.


81 posted on 07/09/2004 10:59:58 AM PDT by SAMWolf (Sign here please:_______________________Thanks)
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