The U. S. Navy said Friday it will hold a memorial ceremony for seven sailors killed when their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan’s coast last weekend. The service will be held on Tuesday at the naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo…
The U. S. Navy said Friday it will hold a memorial ceremony for seven sailors killed when their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan’s coast last weekend.
The service will be held on Tuesday at the naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, where the badly damaged destroyer USS Fitzgerald is based, a navy spokeswoman said.
The sailors’ relatives, U. S. military officials and some 300 crew members of the guided-missile warship will join the private event, she added, without releasing other details.
The memorial comes as investigators probe what happened in the early hours of June 17 when the ship collided with the Philippine-flagged ACX Crystal in a busy channel near the destroyer’s home base, a gateway to container ports in Tokyo and nearby Yokohama.
