Ta Ching 21

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The long-line fishing vessel Ta Ching No. 21 ( Chinese : 大慶 21 號), also Ta Ching 21 or Tai Ching 21 , was discovered without a crew in the Pacific off Kiribati in November 2008 and known as the ghost ship .

Ship and crew

The Ta Ching 21 was built in 1989 for fishing with longlines and is 56.96 meters long, 8.8 meters wide and has a gross tonnage of 723. She also sails under the Taiwanese flag. At the time of the incident, 29 crew members from Taiwan, Indonesia , China and the Philippines were on board the ship.

Ghost ship incident

After the last contact with the outside world was on October 28, 2008, the Ta Ching 21 was found abandoned by the crew of a Korean fishing vessel on November 9, floating off the Phoenix Islands . Parts of the deck superstructure had obviously been destroyed by a fire and the crew was missing, as were three life rafts and a lifeboat. Then one tried on November 12, C-130 Hercules of the US Air Force the area unsuccessfully for the missing from. The New Zealand Air Force was only fully informed of the disappearance on November 17 and started a search operation on November 20 with a P-3K2 Orion that stretched over 54,000 km 2 and three days. A helicopter from the French Navy also took part at times . Also Fiji , which coordinated the search, participated with search parties scoured which sparsely populated islands north of Kiribati to the sailors. Since all efforts were unsuccessful, the search was stopped. The burned-out Ta Ching 21 was towed back to Taiwan.

Attempted explanation

Since the fire had already gone out when the ship was discovered, it is believed that the incident had already taken place a few days earlier. The absence of the lifeboat and life rafts indicates that the crew was able to leave the ship safely, but perished at sea. This is also supported by the fact that no emergency signals were received.

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