The sinking of ''Namyoung-Ho'' () was a marine accident that occurred in the sea near

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

on December 15, 1970.

Overview

On December 15, 1970, the South Korean ferryboat ''Namyoung-Ho'' sank in the Korea Strait. The vessel was heading from

Seogwipo-si Seogwipo () is the second-largest Administrative divisions of South Korea, city on Jeju Island, settled on a rocky volcanic coastline in the southern part of Jeju Province, South Korea. In July 2006, Seogwipo's boundaries were expanded to include ...

to Seongsanpo Port near

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, before it sank about away from

Yeosu Yeosu (; ''Yeosu-si''), historically also Yosu, and known to the Japanese as Reisui during the period when Korea was under Japanese rule, is a city located on the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula in South Jeolla Province, South Korea and ...

and Jeollanam

Boat

The ferry was a 362-ton vessel, with a reported capacity of 321 persons and 140 tons of cargo.

Incident

On December 12, 1970 the ferry departed with 338 passengers on board en route to Jeju island from Busan. The sinking on December 14 was blamed on overloading of the vessel, with initial reports stating that the ferry tilted to one side after 150 crates of tangerines had been placed on one side of the ship. In 2014, a similar tragedy was repeated in South Korea with the sinking of MV ''Sewol'', which caused more than 300 deaths in circumstances similar to those of the ''Namyoung-Ho''.

References

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