Hong Kong’s Floating Jumbo Restaurant Capsizes at Sea

  • Corrects to remove references to the ship sinking in headline
  • and first paragraph of story originally published on June 21.
The Jumbo Floating Restaurant being towed out of Aberdeen Harbour on June 14.Photographer: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images

Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a faded landmark of Hong Kong, capsized in the South China Sea after being towed away from the city to an unknown destination.

The incident involving the imperial palace-shaped vessel occurred on Sunday after taking on water in adverse conditions near the Paracel Islands, its owner Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises Ltd. said in a statement. Salvage would be “extremely difficult” given the water depth of 1,000 meters, it said, adding no crew members were injured.