U.S. Warship Just Collided With a Tugboat in Japanese Waters

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Well its thug boat!!


Thanks Obama.

Ever since he allowed Gays in the millitary shisp collided Jet fighters drawing big digs in the air!

This post is hysterical

 

[CubixRube]

Payback's a bitch, Japan.

 

[Stoic1]

The 7th fleet just can't catch a break.

 

[loyalyolayal]

Build a wall.

 

[irish_thug]

When I hear tugboat I think of something else.

Curse you internet.

Here

 

[Daveb]

I was listening to an an interview about how the Fat Leonard scandal has decimated the leadership. This has led to less qualified people in the positions of power. Really interesting stuff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...dab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.b9c4617e19b9

 

[badascan]

As someone who's spent over 2/3rds of this year on a ships I can tell you they aren't the most maneuverable machines. When in a crowded port it's almost anything goes as far as who has the right of way, etc. There are "rules of the road" as its called as to who passes who on which side and who crosses who's path when but it's basically chaos when you have vessels as large as 1k + feet down to small fishing boats.

The requirements to qualify as a Tug captain as far less then required for a larger vessel, plus it states the tug lost power... ships "colliding" isn't all that uncommon. Tugs are extremely capable when they have power and because of that they tend to operate closer to other ships. We have a few car tires tied to ropes to hold over the side if we happen to end up in a possible collision situation. This is a non news story...

 

[Gizmoduck]

They gotta be better than that. No excuses.

 

[GhostZ06]

did you guys read? it wasn't the warships fault, it was the tug boat. Read the damn thing

 

[PrinceOfPain]

The mighty US navy is hardly inspiring much faith in its competence or efficacy lately.
Sounds like its overstretched a bit.

 

[Peteyandjia]

Glad to hear no one was hurt.

 

[Ceez]

This post is hysterical

I couldn't understand the last line..

 

[Arkain2K]

did you guy read? it wasn't the warships fault, it was the tug boat. Read the damn thing

Well, if TS even posess elementary-level reading/comprehension skill, he would have titled this thread "Drifting tugboat bumped into U.S Navy warship", follow by something better than that sorry excuse for an OP.

But you know, narratives, and stupidity.

 

[Arkain2K]

As someone who's spent over 2/3rds of this year on a ships I can tell you they aren't the most maneuverable machines. When in a crowded port it's almost anything goes as far as who has the right of way, etc. There are "rules of the road" as its called as to who passes who on which side and who crosses who's path when but it's basically chaos when you have vessels as large as 1k + feet down to small fishing boats.

The requirements to qualify as a Tug captain as far less then required for a larger vessel, plus it states the tug lost power... ships "colliding" isn't all that uncommon. Tugs are extremely capable when they have power and because of that they tend to operate closer to other ships. We have a few car tires tied to ropes to hold over the side if we happen to end up in a possible collision situation. This is a non news story...

Correct on all count.

Glad to hear no one was hurt.

It's actually common procedure to hang car/aircraft tires all around the sides of tug boats, as they drifts and bumps into other vessels in a crowded port on a daily basis as soon as their engines shuts off, and nothing stops them from repeatedly colliding with the docks they're tied to all day long, no matter which part of the world they operates in.

Fortunately, the casualties from those daily bumps and nudges are somewhere between "non-existence" and "why da fuq is there even a thread on this shit?".

This is non-news clickbait, written for the sole purpose of rehashing past incidents involving the Navy, which somehow ended up taking up about 90% of the content in this "breaking news" article.

Why? Probably because there's actually nothing to talk about the "tugboat collision" itself, aside from the scratched paints!

Hell, the author doesn't even think this "breaking news" is important enough for him to mention what the tugboat's name was, or which company owns it, or did the owner apologized, or how much he offer to pay to repaint over the scratch over the Navy ship, you know, important details that actually involves the incident.

Why? because the author himself has no interest in the non-news.

 

[cincymma79]

Basically what happened right here

 

[Thrawn33]

What a clickbait thread title....

And the lack of follow-up by some of this threads posters...

 

[CauseImbetta]

Again? No surprise, it happens 3 times a year.

 

[oldshadow]

It's amazing how little people know about ships and ports.

A tug bumping a ship is it a not big deal. It was the tugs fault and the navy ship has nothing to do with it.

 

[savemgs]

When I hear tugboat I think of something else.

Curse you internet.

 

[Greoric]

The article says that the tugboat lost power and steered into the path of the destroyer. I'm not a sailing wiz, but aren't ships of that size rather difficult to timely steer away from such? Isn't this the tug's fault?

Pretty sure the tug has the right of way.