China Cruise Ship Disaster

The vessel was carrying 405 passengers 5 travel agents and 48 crew on a holiday cruise up the Yangtze.

China cruise ship disaster. The 76 meter long four-deck river passenger ship Eastern Star Dongfangzhixing capsized and sank on the Yangtze River in the Wuhan Damazhou area. China cruise ship disaster. Just offshore lay the upended shell of the Eastern Star a luxury cruise ship that was carrying 458 people including dozens of elderly tourists and a three-year-old boy when it capsized and sank.

So in conclusion if China suffers in one way it will somehow affect the entire earth. China cruise ship disaster MV Dongfang zhi Xing Eastern Star 1 June 2015. MV Dongfang zhi Xing was a river cruise ship that operated in the Three Gorges region of inland China.

The passengers were mostly in their 60s and 70s and mostly from Nanjing where. That sinking killed 282 people. Death Toll Passes 100 More Than 300 Still Missing.

Chinas deadliest maritime disaster in recent decades was when the Dashun ferry caught fire and capsized off Shandong province in November 1999 killing about 280. A rescue worker bows at. Chinas deadliest maritime disaster in recent decades was the Dashun ferry which caught fire and capsized off Shandong province in November 1999 killing about 280 people.

China suffered one of the worst maritime disasters in its recent history this week when a cruise ship with more than 400 people aboard capsized in the Yangtze river. The four-deck Eastern Star was on its way from the city of Nanjing to the city of Chongqing on Monday night when it encountered a severe storm and overturned. Chinas deadliest passenger ship disaster in recent memory is believed to be the capsizing of the ferry Dashun off the coast of eastern Shandong province in 1999.

The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship which capsized during a storm in the Yangtze river jumped to 396 on Saturday. Flashback in maritime history. A survivor C-green top is rescued by divers from the Dongfangzhixing or Eastern Star vessel which sank in the Yangtze river.