The
177 metre-long, 26,500 tonnes cargo ship was found without any crew or signs of
life
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The empty container vessel Sam Ratulangi PB
1600 was discovered by fishermen
A
RUSTY "ghost ship" has been discovered floating totally abandoned off
the coast of Myanmar.
The
177m-long container ship – named Sam Ratulangi PB 1600 – was found 11km from
land in the Gulf of Martaban by fishermen last week.
Ship
tracking website MarineTraffic last reported the ship's location off the coast
of Taiwan, in the South China Sea, in 2009.
Navy
authorities have since discovered the mysterious ship, which was sailing under
an Indonesian flag, was being towed from its home port of Jakarta to a
ship-breaking factory in Bangladesh for scrapping.
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Photographs show the rusting deck of the
vessel found floating off Myanmar
Crew
on the tug-boat abandoned the vessel after encountering bad weather, the BBC
reported.
Myanmar
Navy personnel found no crew members or goods on the ship after an initial
inspection.
They
have since confirmed in a Facebook post that the vessel was being towed by a
tugboat before becoming unmoored.
The
post read: “It was the view that the ship could have been towed by another ship
after two cables… were found at its head.”
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It has since been revealed the ghost ship had
been on its way to a scrap yard in Bangladesh
Navy
authorities located the tugboat sailing 80 kilometres off Yangon City with 13
Indonesian crew on board.
After
speaking to the tug workers, navy personnel learnt that the ship had set sail
from Jakarta on August 13.
According
to the Facebook post, the ship encountered bad weather south of Yangon river.
This
resulted in the vessel, which had a dead weight 26,500 tonnes, becoming
detached.
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The ship was built in 2001
Source: the sun. 3 September 2018
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