Ten sailors on a Tuvalu cargo ship were rescued early Saturday
when the ship seriously tilted and was about to capsize, said
Ministry of Communications' Donghai (East China Sea) Rescue
Bureau.
The bureau said it received an alarm at 11:50?PM (1550 GMT)
Friday that the cargo ship, Sun Lake, was in danger on the sea near
the Yangtze River estuary, or 30.565 degrees north latitude and
122.22 degrees east longitude.
The bureau immediately sent two rescue ships and saved all the
sailors on the 54.9-meter-long cargo ship by three o'clock Saturday
morning.
All the sailors are Chinese nationals with nine from Shandong Province and one from Hubei Province.
The ship, loaded with 770 tons of steel, left Shanghai Harbor on
Friday afternoon for the Republic of Korea but encountered strong
wind in the evening.
The wind displaced the cargoes and then caused a tilt, said the
bureau.?
(Xinhua News Agency November 25, 2006)