USS KEARSAGE arrived at Subic Bay, (The Philippines), with 196 of the 199 survivors from USS FRANK E EVANS, (destroyer), which had been cut in half by HMAS MELBOURNE, (aircraft carrier), during exercises in the South China Sea on 3 June, with the loss of 74 lives. At the same time, MELBOURNE was undergoing emergency repairs at the Royal Navy Dockyard in Singapore.
Australian Naval History on 6 June 1969
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