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MV Doña Paz was a Japanese-built and Philippine-registered passenger ferry that sank after it collided with the oil tanker Vector on December 20, 1987. Built by Onomichi Zosen of Hiroshima , Japan, the ship was launched on April 25, 1963 as the Himeyuri Maru with a passenger capacity of 608.
MV Doña Paz left from Tacloban City, Leyte, for the City of Manila, with a stopover at Catbalogan, Samar.At 10:30 p.m. (PST), the passenger vessel collided with a motor tanker, MT Vector, near Dumali Point between the provinces of Marinduque and Oriental Mindoro. [5]
The documentary features interviews of survivors Salvador and Aludía Bacsal, Pedro Sorema, Generoso Batola, Morris Apura, Almario Balanay, Luthgardo Niedo, as well as archival footage of the court cases from TV and live incident showings on the aftermath of the Doña Paz sinking.
The strait is known for being the place where the Sulpicio Lines-owned passenger ferry MV Doña Paz and oil tanker MT Vector [2] sank on December 20, 1987, after colliding with each other, resulting in more than 4,386 deaths. It was the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history.
As the two vessels collided, Vector's cargo ignited and caused a fire that spilled into the water and rapidly spread to Doña Paz, which sank within hours. Vector also sank shortly afterwards. Two of the 13 crew members aboard Vector (Franklin Bornilio and Reynaldo Taripe) survived but all 58 crew of Doña Paz died. The official death toll for ...
Doña Paz (formerly called Don Sulpicio, caught fire after colliding with an oil tanker, resulting in over 4000 lives lost: the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history) Doña Marilyn (formerly called Doña Ana , sank October 24, 1988 in Typhoon Ruby , known as Unsang in the Philippines. 391 dead or missing; 300 survivors)
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MV Doña Paz sank in 1987 with at least 4,341 people killed. MV Doña Marilyn sank in 1988 with 254 dead. MV St. Thomas Aquinas sank in 2013 after a collision with a cargo ship MV Sulpicio Express Siete with 137 people killed and missing. SS El Faro sank in 2015 during Hurricane Joaquin