July 22, 2005 - 10:01AM
SMH wrote:Two more ships have collided off eastern Japan, leaving nine Chinese crew members missing and one seriously injured, a week after a petrol tanker and a freighter hit each other in fog.
Japan's coast guard said today's accident occurred off the coast of Chiba, 100 kilometres east of Tokyo, and the coast guard dispatched four planes and seven boats to rescue the missing.
"The two ships were a Malta-registered ship and a Japanese cargo vessel. The Malta ship sank," a coast guard spokesman said.
... Last Friday a petrol tanker burst into flames after colliding with a freighter in dense fog off western Japan last Friday, leaving one crew member dead and five missing ...
The Japan Times wrote: ... The sunken ship is believed to be the Wei Hang 9, a 3,947-ton freighter registered in Malta, which was carrying 21 crew members, all Chinese, the Coast Guard said. The other ship is the Kaishin Maru, a Japanese-registered 499-ton freighter owned by shipping firm Kayama Kaiun K.K. based in Osaka Prefecture. The ship sustained cracks in the collision but its four crew members on board are unhurt, the Coast Guard said ...more
So, in Round 2, this week, a surprising result: The Kaishin Maru
beat and sank the much larger Wei Hang 9
RIP lads.
