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The Swire Group's Pacific Adventurer is no stranger to disaster.
At 3am on June 22, 2006, the 23,700-tonne cargo ship collided with a PLA patrol vessel, killing up to 13 Chinese naval personnel. 
None of the 28 crew aboard the cargo ship were killed or injured.
A television report from state broadcaster CCTV  claimed after the incident that the Swire ship had fled the scene of the accident,  which happened near the Zhuhai section of the Pearl River.
However, the company denied the report, and said the captain had steered the vessel away  to ensure  the crew were safe.
'According to international safety regulations, we have to check our own ship to make sure we are not damaged because we can't provide assistance if we are damaged,' a spokesman said at the time.
The naval ship reported losing 13 men when it sank. It is unclear how many were recovered.
Mainland military observers said the incident was the most serious naval disaster since the sinking of a submarine in 2003 in which all 70 crew on board were killed.
The PLA patrol vessel  was commissioned in 1999 and equipped with advanced weapons. There were only six vessels with the advanced capabilities at the time of the crash. The collision was the third  serious military accident on the mainland in three weeks. A Swire spokeswoman  said yesterday that no investigation report on the incident was ever released publicly. 




Not the first time Swire's vessel has run into trouble