The 460ft Gulf Livestock 1 sent out a distress signal in the early hours of yesterday morningA ship carrying 43 crew and nearly 6,000 live cattle from New Zealand to China capsized and sank after it was hit by a huge wave during a typhoon off southwestern Japan, the only survivor found so far has said. A Filipino crew member, named as Sareno Edvarodo, was rescued late on Wednesday after Japanese navy P-3C Orion surveillance aircraft spotted the 45-year-old chief officer wearing a life jacket and waving while bobbing in the water. Japan’s coastguard reported that the freighter Gulf Livestock 1 and its crew, including two Australians, two New Zealanders and 39 Filipinos, had disappeared yesterday in high winds and violent seas whipped up by Typhoon Maysak. Mr Edvarodo told rescuers the Panamanian-registered, 460ft-long vessel had lost an engine and been

Source: The Times September 03, 2020 08:04 UTC