Hong Kong Jumbo Seafood Boat Sinks? The Jumbo Seafood Boat was originally built with funds raised by businessman Wang Laoji, but accidentally caught fire during renovation in 1971, which seriously burned and caused 34 deaths and 42 injuries. Later, it was bought by the Macau gambling king Stanley Ho and the Hong Kong billionaire Cheng Yu Tong, renovated, the hull and interior of the ship were designed by the Chinese court, the carved beams and paintings were exquisite, and finally officially opened in 1976, and later won the reputation of "the world's largest sea restaurant".
Jumbo Seafood Boat was towed out of Hong Kong on Tuesday and handed over to an ocean-going tugboat near Luzhou island on Lamma Island, and two tugboats, "Runfu" and "Runwei", dragged the Jumbo Seafood Boat out of Hong Kong on the 14th, and then handed over to the ocean-going tugboat for maintenance. After the ocean-going tugboat sailed to the Paracel Islands on the 18th, the seafood boat overturned and sank the next day. Wen Zijie, chairman of Runli Maritime, which owns a Hong Kong tugboat, said earlier that the company's vessels could not go abroad, and the ocean-going tugboats were in Hong Kong waters, near Luzhou and Lamma Island.
Recently, it sank in the waters near the Paracel Islands, and the owner of the ship, Aberdeen Catering Group, has not yet made any more explanations. According to the Marine Department's vessel departure records, the ocean-going tugboat should be "Jaewon 9" (transliteration "in Yuan 9"); According to a network of ship voyage records, the ship was originally destined for Cambodia, but on Sunday (19th), it suddenly wandered unusually outside the Paracel Islands, sailing in a jagged manner. The Hong Kong agent of the ocean-going tug did not respond to the enquiry.
