U.S. Submarine, Japanese Ship Collide

USS Newport News (SSN 750)
US Navy submarine and merchant vessel collide in Strait of Hormuz
By U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs
No US sailors or merchant crew were injured when a US Navy submarine and a commercial cargo vessel collided in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday evening January 8, 2007.

The collision between USS Newport News (SSN 750) and the Japanese-flagged motor vessel Mogamigawa occurred at approximately 10:15 in the evening (local time) in the strait of Hormuz while the submarine was transiting submerged. Read it.

U.S. Submarine, Japanese Ship Collide
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine collided with a Japanese oil tanker in the Straits of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the world's oil supplies travel, officials said.

Kozo Eguchi, left, director of Kawasaki Kisen Ltd., explains about collision to photographers in front of a scale model of Mogamigawa, the company's tanker, in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007. A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine and the tanker collided in the Arabian Sea, the U.S. Navy and Japanese government said Tuesday. No one was seriously injured. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)
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