The World - News from Nov. 4, 1988
An unseaworthy oil tanker that was a “hazard to navigation” was responsible for the sinking of the passenger ferry Dona Paz last Dec. 20 with the loss of at least 2,000 lives, a Philippine marine board of inquiry concluded. A 69-page coast guard report blamed the disaster on the 630-ton oil tanker Vector, which collided with the Dona Paz off Mindoro Island. The board of inquiry found the Vector at fault because it lacked qualified crew and equipment and had sailed without valid licenses. The Dona Paz was owned by Sulpicio Lines, whose passenger operations were suspended by the government this week after another of its vessels, the Dona Marilyn, sank Oct. 24 during Typhoon Ruby, killing at least 76 people.
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