China Cruise Ship Crash
Chinese ship capsizes on Yangtze with hundreds missing.
China cruise ship crash. And the traffic across the bridge was not interrupted. Five people have died and hundreds are missing after a cruise ship carrying 456 people capsized on the Yangtze River in Chinas Hubei. Shocking footage from China of a small cruise ship shortly before it sank during a storm.
China bracing for worst. The Eastern Star cruise ship sank late Monday June 1 in. No casualty was reported both on the cruise ship and the bridge.
The accident left two of the ships chimneys damaged and an obvious abrasion on the bridge. Plus in the event of a disaster cruise ships can get assistance from rescue vessels or passing commercial or military ships. 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.
In April 2013 a cruise ship following the same route as Eastern Star caught fire and this February a passenger ship and cargo ship collided around. Capsized cruise ship death toll over 400 in China. Chinese Government Refuses To Give Up On Cruise Ship Rescue But Little Hope Remains By Matt Sheehan JIANLI China -- Forty-eight hours after an Eastern Star cruise ship sank into the muddy Yangtze river rescue crews continued a desperate search for hundreds of missing passengers while families that have all but given up hope made their way to the site of the accident.
In the video filmed in Guangyuan Sichuan Province last Saturday the ship can be seen moving slowly through the choppy sea. Police carry a body to the shore of the Yangtze River in Nanjing China on Tuesday June 9. 7 crashed into a bridge in Wenzhou east Chinas Zhejiang Province.
Police in Jianli tell us 20 vehicles from funeral homes are waiting by wreckage of sunken Yangtze cruise ship Tom Phillips tomphillipsin June 2 2015. The Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage claiming more than 1500 lives Scientific American reports. A Chinese cruise ship carrying hundreds of elderly tourists has.
