PHOTOS: USS John S. McCain leaves drydock, more than year after deadly collision

US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jeremy Graham

USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) prepares to undock as a dry dock is flooded in order to test the ship's integrity.

US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jeremy Graham

USS John S. McCain is pulled toward a pier after departing from a dry dock at Fleet Activities Yokosuka.

US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Tyra Watson

USS John S. McCain prepares to depart from a dry dock at Fleet Activities Yokosuka after an extensive maintenance period in order to sustain the ship's ability to serve as a forward-deployed asset in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.

Desmond Foo/The Straits Times/Sph, European Pressphoto Agency

A general view shows the port side of the United States Navy missile destroyer USS John S McCain and a hole in its hull as it is towed into the Changi Navy Base off the eastern coast of Singapore, Aug. 21,2017.

ROSLAN RAHMAN, AFP/Getty Images

The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain is guided by a tugboat after a collision with an oil tanker, outside Changi naval base in Singapore on Aug. 21, 2017.

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This photo released by the Royal Malaysian Navy shows the oil and chemical tanker Alnic MC is seen after a collision off Johor, Malaysia, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017.

Desmond Foo/The Straits Times/Sph, European Pressphoto Agency

Crewmen on the deck of the United States Navy missile destroyer USS John S. McCain above a hole on the port side of its hull as it is towed into the Changi Navy Base off the eastern coast of August 21, 2017.

Wong Maye-E, AP

The USS John S. McCain was docked at Singapore's naval base with "significant damage" to its hull after an early morning collision with the oil tanker Alnic MC as vessels from several nations searched Monday for missing U.S. sailors.

Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Fulton, AP

Damage to the portside is visible as the Guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) steers towards Changi naval base in Singapore following a collision with the merchant vessel Alnic MC Monday, Aug. 21, 2017.

ROSLAN RAHMAN, Getty Images

The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain, with a hole on its portside after a collision with an oil tanker, makes its way to Changi naval base in Singapore on August 21, 2017.

Daniel Chan, AP

Malaysian Maritime Director Indera Abu Bakar points the damage of USS John S. McCain shown on a screen during a press conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Aug. 21, 2017.

Roslan Rahman, AFP/Getty Images

A general view shows the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain with a hole on its left portside after a collision with oil tanker, outside Changi naval base in Singapore Aug. 21, 2017.

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