US Navy Ship Collides With Oil Tanker In The Persian Gulf

The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter was damaged in a collision with the Japanese owned bulk oil tanker M/V Otowasan in the Strait of Hormuz, on Aug. 12, 2012. Source: U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class, Jonathan Sunderman via Bloomberg

Navy: U.S. Destroyer Collides With Oil Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz -- CNN

(CNN) -- The U.S. Navy said its guided missile destroyer collided with a Japanese-owned oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday morning.

No one was injured in the collision that occurred about 1 a.m. local time when the USS Porter collided with the Panamanian-flagged bulk oil tanker M/V Otowasan, the Navy said in a statement.

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