URR here with an update on the collision and report of the missing sailors. Fitzgerald was struck near midships on the starboard side, the bow of the Philippine-flagged container ship doing a great deal of topside and underwater damage. The damage below the waterline was severe, and the picture above (from MSNBC) shows Fitzgerald in Yokosuka, with a very pronounced list to starboard. Most of the flooded compartments appear to be berthing spaces. The seven sailors were found in those flooded compartments.
Commander 7th Fleet VADM Joe Aucoin called the efforts of the crew to control the flooding and save the ship "heroic", while TF 70 Commander RADM Charles Williams praised the "extraordinary courage" of the sailors. This should be a reminder to everyone that service at sea is a very dangerous occupation, and there are a hundred ways to get killed on any given day aboard ship, even in peacetime. Kipling called the sea "the old gray widow maker" (through the mouth of Danish sailor's wife), as true a description as there ever has been. Prayers to the families of those sailors, and to their shipmates. And to everyone who plies the world's oceans in gray hulls for the defense of liberty.
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arms hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidst the mighty ocean deep,
Its own appointed limits keep.
O, hear us when we cry to thee,
For those in peril on the sea.
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