From the BBC:
After surviving several storms during its 10-month voyage, the junk broke in two and sank after it was rammed by a freighter just off Taiwan’s coast.
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It set sail last June and called at several ports on the US west coast, including San Francisco, and at Honolulu, after riding out several storms.
It sank 30 miles (48km) off the island’s north-eastern port of Suao, just hours shy of completing its record-breaking Pacific crossing.
Ouch. Getting rammed by a giant steel freighter was probably not high on Admiral Zheng He’s list of worries, 600 years ago. Pirates, probably. Dragons, maybe.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
The adventure came to a sad end Sunday morning in the ocean off Taiwan when the 54-foot vessel, built to the specifications of a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) war junk, was hit by a large freighter and sunk. The 11 Princess Taiping crew members survived. The large ship did not stop or render assistance.
Someone’s in trouble…
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