China Cruise Ship Disaster

A small cruise ship sank overnight on Monday June 1 in Chinas Yangtze River during a storm leaving at least five people dead and nearly 450 people missin.

China cruise ship disaster. A week ago Monday the Eastern Star a passenger ship on a pleasure cruise along a stretch of the Yangtze that winds through central Chinas Hubei province went down during a storm. On the night of 1 June 2015 the ship was traveling on the Yangtze River when it capsized during a thunderstorm in Jianli Hubei Province with 454 people on board. So in conclusion if China suffers in one way it will somehow affect the entire earth.

The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship which capsized during a storm in the Yangtze river jumped to 396 on Saturday. By Dion Rabouin DionRabouin 060515 AT 1215 PM. On 13 June 442 deaths were confirmed with 12 survivors.

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. Capsized cruise ship death toll over 400 in China. The Chinese authorities put the death toll from the Yangtze River cruise ship disaster at 396 as emergency workers continue to search the vessel.

The vessel was carrying 405 passengers 5 travel agents and 48 crew on a holiday cruise up the Yangtze. Rescuers were able to save dozens of passengers after a severe storm capsized a cruise ship in China. 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.

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. China cruise ship disaster MV Dongfang zhi Xing Eastern Star on 1 June 2015. Disaster on Chinese river as cruise ship flips over.

A survivor C-green top is rescued by divers from the Dongfangzhixing or Eastern Star vessel which sank in the Yangtze river. 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. MV Dongfang zhi Xing was a river cruise ship that operated in the Three Gorges region of inland China.