Tag: vessel sinks

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) rescued 19 crew members from a bitumen tanker that sank off the Ratnagiri coast, on September 16.

Despite the high death toll, the casualty is less known for the fatalities and mostly known for its contribution to the fueling of the anti-German sentiment that set off a chain of events leading to World War I.

Tanker HA AN 01 has been reportedly sank at anchorage off Diem Dien port channel, in the Thai Binh province, Vietnam at night Sep 8, after being caught in adverse weather.

A cargo ship with 15 people on board sank in the Makassar Strait of central Indonesia, leaving 11 people missing, an official said on August 27.

The historic ferry Tourist II partially sank at a pier in Astoria, Oregon on July 28, interrupting its long and storied career. 

Several marine groups responded to reports of a sinking boat off central Vancouver Island on July 11. A sheen was also reported.

Chinese search and rescue teams recovered twelve bodies on July 4 from waters off Hong Kong after a typhoon-hit offshore wind installation vessel with 30 crewmembers sank during the weekend.

26 crewmembers of an offshore wind installation vessel are missing, after it snapped in two and eventually sinking, due to being caught near the centre of a typhoon in the South China Sea on July 2.

A general cargo vessel capsized and sank off Vietnam on 22 June, with the Vietnam Maritime Search & Rescue Coordination Center managing to save all eight seafarers.

The Indian Coast Guard saved the lives of 15 Syrian seafarers after they abandoned their sinking cargo ship.