China Says Navy Ship Hits Rocks In Disputed Waters

[WuMaoCleverbot]

Embarrassment as Chinese frigate runs aground
Date
July 13, 2012 - 3:22PM


A Chinese warship has run aground while patrolling contested waters adjacent to the Philippines in the South China Sea.
The frigate pinned itself to a reef last night at Half Moon Shoal, on the south-eastern edge of the Spratly Islands, and remains "thoroughly stuck", according to Western diplomatic sources shortly after midday local time, or 2pm AEST.
Salvage operations could be diplomatically challenging, given the vessel appears to have run aground within 200 kilometres of the Philippines coast, which is squarely within what Manila claims to be its Exclusive Economic Zone.
The stricken People's Liberation Army Navy vessel, believed to be No. 560, a Jianghu-class frigate, has in the past been involved in aggressively discouraging Filipino fishing boats from the area.

Spratly Islands | Chinese navy

Maybe the Philippine navy could give a hand to this trespassing Chinese ship??? Or confiscate it??? Another proof of Chinese vessel intruding in our territory.

 

[GR!FF!N]

already a thread is running on that..MOD should merge this thread with existing one..

 

[WuMaoCleverbot]

Chinese warship stuck in PH reef - report
BY RAPPLER.COM
Posted on 07/13/2012 1:50 PM | Updated 07/13/2012 4:56 PM

UPDATED) MANILA, Philippines — A Chinese warship is “thoroughly stuck” in a reef within Philippine territory, an Australian news website reported Friday, July 13.

The Philippines is ready to assist the warship if, indeed, it was stuck, said Western Command Lt Col Neil Estrella. He said the Western Command, however, is still verifying this information. (Read: PH ready to assist Chinese warship.)

Citing Western diplomatic sources, the Sydney Morning Herald said the warship on Thursday, July 12, “pinned itself” to a reef in Half Moon Shoal.

"Salvage operations could be diplomatically challenging, given the vessel appears to have run aground within 200 kilometers of the Philippine coast, which is squarely within what Manila claims to be its exclusive economic zone," the news article said.

The vessel is believed to be People's Liberation Army Navy vessel No. 560, a Jianghu-class frigate. It "has in the past been involved in aggressively discouraging Filipino fishing boats from the area," said the Australian report.

"The accident could not have come at a more embarrassing moment for the Chinese leadership, who have been pressing territorial claims and flexing the country's muscle ahead of a leadership transition later this year," the report added. — Rappler.com

Chinese warship stuck in PH reef - report

Half Moon Shoal is eighty kilometers from Palawan.

 

[WuMaoCleverbot]

Chinese navy rescues warship running aground in Nansha Islands
Xinhua | July 13, 2012 16:47
By Agencies

Chinese navy on Friday was conducting rescue mission of a frigate, who ran aground in the waters of China's Nansha Islands.

A news release on the website of the Defense Ministry, citing source from the ministry's press department, said the frigate ran aground when conducting routine patrol mission in the waters around the Banyue Shoal about 7:00 pm Wednesday, with no casualties reported.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabi...arship-running-aground-in-Nansha-Islands.aspx

Take note where the source came from, and the time that the actual grounding happened --- about two days ago!

 

[ManilaBoy45]

Just shows how China has become so aggresive and greedy lately,this 560 frigate was less than 100 kilometers or less than 60 miles from the shores of southern Palawan island when it ran aground wednesday night ...

 

[Zane]

China Says Navy Ship Hits Rocks In Disputed Waters : NPR

China Says Navy Ship Hits Rocks In Disputed Waters
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

text size A A A BEIJING July 13, 2012, 05:57 am ET
BEIJING (AP) — China's Defense Ministry says one of its navy's missile frigates has run aground while conducting patrols in a disputed part of the South China Sea near the Philippines.

A brief statement posted to the ministry's website Friday said no injuries were reported and a recovery operation was being mounted. It said the accident occurred around 7 p.m. Wednesday as the ship was patrolling near Half Moon Shoal.

The area is about 60 nautical miles (111 kilometers) west of the Philippine province of Palawan in an area claimed by Manila.

Tensions in the area have been heightened following a standoff between Philippines and Chinese government boats at another shoal nearby. China claims almost all of the South China Sea and its island groups as its territory.

 

[Zane]

 

[homing28]

海軍正組織力量到半月礁救援

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Already posted

 

[Zane]

Already posted

This one?
http://www.defence.pk/forums/chines...ady-patrols-disputed-seas-25.html#post3176615

The article in the above link is not an official one.
By contrast the one I posted is confirmation from China's Defense Ministry. You may find the Chinese version in the following link.
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[Kyusuibu Honbu]

This one?
http://www.defence.pk/forums/chines...ady-patrols-disputed-seas-25.html#post3176615

The article in the above link is not an official one.
By contrast the one I posted is confirmation from China's Defense Ministry. You may find the Chinese version in the following link.
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Good of you

Mods don't like to many threads on same topic, just post the article in the same thread

 

[SpArK]

Navy Ship shits Rocks In Disputed Waters

 

[Fanling Monk]

I wonder what the OP trying to convey here. Obviously it was a small mishap where no one got hurt. Is there a need to open a thread and tell the world every time a soldier misfire a weapon?

 

[third eye]

http://www.defence.pk/forums/sugges...multiple-threads-same-subject.html?highlight=

For those whom it matters..

 

[Ajaxpaul]

So rocks stopped the mighty PLAN...

That too in disputed waters. What an embarrassment.