USS John S. McCain was on its way to a routine port visit in Singapore when it hit a merchant vessel Ahmad Masood/ReutersTen American sailors were missing at sea this morning after a naval destroyer collided with a merchant ship in waters off Singapore, the second such collision involving a US naval vessel in Asia in two months. Aerial photographs showed that the USS John S. McCain , a 505-foot, 8900-tonne Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, had a hole on its rear left side after the collision with the Alnic MC, a 600-foot, 30,000-tonne tanker. Both ships continued to Singapore under their own power after the collision, which occurred close to the Straits of Malacca, one of the busiest sea lanes in the world through which about one third of the world’s shipping passes every year. “The ship is currently sailing under its own power and heading to Changi…

Source: The Times August 21, 2017 08:03 UTC