ON 07/19/09AT APPROX 1850HRS., VESSEL 1 AND VESSEL 2 WERE BOTH HEADED WEST GOING UP BODKIN CREEK.  THE VESSELS WERE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO ONE ANOTHER.  VESSEL 2 INCREASED SPEED TO GET AHEAD OF VESSEL 1. VESSEL 1 INCREASED SPEED AND VEARED OFF TO PORT.  VESSEL 1 THEN TURNED TO STARBOARD AND CAME ACROSS THE BOW OF VESSEL 2.  VESSEL 2 ATTEMPED TO GO INTO REVERSE BUT WAS UNABLE TO DO SO AND STRUCK VESSEL 1 ON THE STARBOARD SIDE AMIDSHIP.
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