1 of 20 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × Photos of Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald after collision with container ship View Photos Seven U.S. Navy sailors are missing off the coast of Japan after an Aegis guided-missile destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald, collided with a container ship, causing significant damage and flooding. Caption Seven U.S. Navy sailors are dead after an Aegis guided-missile destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald, collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan. In that incident, the Greeneville suddenly surfaced underneath the Japanese ship, causing it to sink and claiming nine lives, four of them high school students. Japanese coast guard and military ships assisted with the rescue, and Japanese planes and helicopters searched the waters before the bodies were found. Read more:Missing U.S. sailors found dead after collision with merchant ship off coast of Japan7 U.S. Navy sailors missing off Japan’s coast after destroyer collides with container shipThe Navy thought this sailor was lost at sea.

Source: Washington Post June 18, 2017 08:14 UTC