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No injuries reported as Japan MSDF minesweeper and cargo ship collide off Hiroshima

National Jun 27, 2019

No injuries reported as Japan MSDF minesweeper and cargo ship collide off Hiroshima

A Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper and a cargo ship collided around midnight Wednesday in the Seto Inland Sea off the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture, but no injuries were reported, according to the Japan Coast Guard. The 510-ton minesweeper Notojima carrying 41 people and the 699-ton ...

20 missing from migrant boat after ferry rescues 27 off Spanish coast

World / Social Issues Jun 20, 2019

20 missing from migrant boat after ferry rescues 27 off Spanish coast

Spanish rescue services are searching for at least 20 people missing from a migrant boat found adrift in the Mediterranean after a passenger ferry rescued 27 people still aboard on Wednesday. The number of migrants arriving in Europe by sea, already declining steadily since 2015, ...

National Jun 4, 2019

Woman rescued from drifting sailboat off Hokkaido identified as Russian national

A woman who was rescued from a drifting sailboat in waters off Hokkaido has been identified as a Russian national, the coast guard said Tuesday. The 48-year-old woman, identified as Tatiana Riabkova Leonidovna, told the coast guard that she departed Vladivostok, in Russia's Far ...

Body found as divers continue search for missing crew from ship collision off eastern Japan

National May 28, 2019

Body found as divers continue search for missing crew from ship collision off eastern Japan

Another crew member was found dead Tuesday as divers searched inside a cargo ship that sank in the Pacific Ocean off eastern Japan, bringing the death toll from the accident to two, authorities said. The divers had resumed a search for missing crew members with ...

World Apr 11, 2018

U.S. Navy refocuses on leadership training after deadly collisions in Pacific

After a pair of crashes involving U.S. Navy ships in the Asia-Pacific killed more than a dozen people last year, the Navy's efforts to develop its leaders is receiving renewed attention. Last week, the Navy inaugurated the College of Leadership and Ethics at the U.S. ...

Japan sees little chance of oil slick from stricken tanker reaching its coast

National Jan 16, 2018

Japan sees little chance of oil slick from stricken tanker reaching its coast

by Yuka Obayashi

Japan sees little chance of the oil spill from a stricken Iranian tanker that sank on Sunday in the East China Sea reaching its shores, an official at the nation's Environment Ministry said on Tuesday. The large tanker Sanchi sank in the worst oil ship ...

Remains found aboard U.S. warship following collision as navy orders fleetwide probe

Asia Pacific Aug 22, 2017

Remains found aboard U.S. warship following collision as navy orders fleetwide probe

by Jesse Johnson

The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet said some remains of navy sailors were found in a compartment of the USS John McCain on Tuesday, a day after the warship's collision with an oil tanker in Southeast Asian waters left 10 sailors missing. Adm. Scott ...

U.S. destroyer collision exposes 40-year Singapore-Malaysia sea dispute

Asia Pacific / Politics Aug 22, 2017

U.S. destroyer collision exposes 40-year Singapore-Malaysia sea dispute

A collision between a U.S. warship and an oil tanker near the Straits of Malacca on Monday has shone a light on a territorial dispute that has simmered between neighbours Singapore and Malaysia for nearly 40 years. The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided ...

Ten sailors missing after Yokosuka-based U.S. warship collides with tanker off Singapore

National Aug 21, 2017

Ten sailors missing after Yokosuka-based U.S. warship collides with tanker off Singapore

by Jesse Johnson

In the second major accident involving a vessel from the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet in just over two months, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain, based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, collides with a tanker in waters east of Singapore.

730 more migrants rescued in Mediterranean as Europe-bound flow grows

World / Social Issues Jun 19, 2017

730 more migrants rescued in Mediterranean as Europe-bound flow grows

Humanitarian ships picked up about 730 migrants on Sunday from rubber and wooden boats in the Mediterranean, adding to a lengthening list of rescue operations in recent days. The migrants were picked up in seven separate rescue operations aboard three dinghies and four wooden craft, ...

Freighter evacuated after hitting barge off England's storm-hit south shore

World Nov 21, 2016

Freighter evacuated after hitting barge off England's storm-hit south shore

Emergency services rescued 11 people from the Saga Sky cargo ship on Sunday after it collided with a barge carrying rocks and started to take on water as Storm Angus battered England's southern coast. The Coast Guard said the remaining 12 people on the Saga ...

Death toll up to 202 as Egypt finds 33 more corpses while salvaging sunken migrant boat

World / Social Issues Sep 28, 2016

Death toll up to 202 as Egypt finds 33 more corpses while salvaging sunken migrant boat

Thirty-three bodies were recovered on Tuesday as the wreck of boat that sank off Egypt last week with hundreds of migrants aboard was lifted from the depths, raising the confirmed death toll to 202, a local official said. The boat capsized off the Mediterranean coast ...

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