Time-lapse video shows damaged destroyer USS John S. McCain loaded aboard massive heavy-lift ship

October 10, 2017

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US Naval Sea Systems Command said in early September that it would move the USS John S. McCain from Singapore to a Navy ship-repair facility in Japan.

But the McCain, a guided-missile destroy damaged in a collision near the Straits of Malacca in late August, is not seaworthy, so the Navy called in the services of a heavy-lift vessel, known as a float-on/float-off ship, to move the McCain to Japan.

The Navy released footage of the McCain being loaded aboard the heavy-lift vessel MV Treasure off the coast of Singapore on October 7.

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