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• GroundingSerious
  Dec 6, 2003ANCHORAGE ST-JEAN, ILE D'ORLEANS, QC, QUEBEC (QC)

  The bulk carrier Yong Kang, en route from Esperance, Australia, anchored off Saint-Jean, le d'Orlans, in the St. Lawrence River on 02 December 2003, while awaiting a berth to unload in the port of Qubec. At approximately 0715, eastern standard time, on December 6, driven by the ebb tide current and strong northeast winds, the Yong Kang started to drag its anchor and drift slowly toward the south bank of the river, where it grounded at approximately 0815. The Yong Kang was refloated by the rising tide at around 1230, but it had sustained some damage to its hull in way of the forepeak; ballast tanks 1, 2, and 3; and the propeller. No pollution or injury was reported.

Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.

Bulker · summer draught 7 m · 69.8 t per cm immersion

Estimate only: modelled from deadweight (deadweight regression) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.

density DWT/GT=1.85 is consistent with declared bulker

Declared type is consistent with the class implied by the vessel’s size signals. Inferred via our shared size-based classifier.