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  2. MV Doña Paz - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of maritime disasters involving the Philippine Span Asia ...

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    The MV Doña Paz was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector on December 20, 1987. With an estimated death toll of 4,386 people and only 24 survivors, it was the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history. Doña Paz was traveling from Leyte island to the Philippine capital of Manila ...

  4. MT Vector - Wikipedia

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    Vector was a Philippine oil tanker that collided with the passenger ferry Doña Paz on December 20, 1987 in the Tablas Strait, Philippines, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 4,385 passengers and crew from the two ships. [2] The incident is considered the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history. [3] [4]

  5. List of maritime disasters in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    MV Doña Josefina: Un­known 24 April 1986 34 130+ 260 The inter-island ferry sank off the coast of Isabel, Leyte on its way from Cebu to Manila. [17] MV Doña Paz: Sulpicio Lines: 20 December 1987 4,341 2 [18] Un­known 2: 25 [19] [20] MV Doña Paz left from Tacloban City, Leyte, for the City of Manila, with a stopover at Catbalogan, Samar.

  6. Asia's Titanic - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Tablas Strait - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Philippine fishing boat explosion and fire kill 6 crewmembers ...

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    In December 1987, an overcrowded ferry, the Dona Paz, sank after colliding with a fuel tanker, killing more than 4,300 people in the world’s worst peacetime sea disaster regarded by some as Asia ...

  9. 1987 in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    December 20 – Interisland passenger ferry MV Doña Paz, travelling from Leyte to Manila and said to be overloaded, and oil tanker MT Vector collide at Tablas Strait off Mindoro Island, setting both on fire; 24 survived, death toll later estimated to be 4,386; [33] considered the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history. [1] [2] [12 ...