Yokohama, Japan, Jun 22, 2017 / 14:00 pm
On Wednesday the Archbishop for Military Services, USA offered his prayers and condolences for the sailors who perished on USS Fitzgerald after colliding with a container ship off the coast of south east Japan last week.
"Deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life on the USS Fitzgerald, I ask all of the faithful to remember in prayer the victims and their families," Archbishop Timothy Broglio said in a June 21 statement.
"I express my heartfelt sympathy to the families whose loved ones perished in this unfortunate incident," he added.
Twenty-five minutes after a Filipino container ship, the ACX Crystal, made a sudden U-turn, it crashed into the starboard side of the USS Fitzgerald, a destroyer, in the early hours of June 17 near Shimoda, Japan.