Min Ping Yu No. 5202

Min Ping Yu No. 5202 shipwreck
Native name 闽平渔5202号船难
English nameMin Ping Yu No. 5202 shipwreck
Date13 August 1990
Time10:08 pm (UTC+8)
Location13 nautical miles north of Keelung, Taiwan Province
CauseHit by ROCS Wen Shan PF-834
Participants50 Fujian residents being repatriated, Republic of China Navy
Deaths21
Min Ping Yu No. 5202
Traditional Chinese閩平漁5202號
Simplified Chinese闽平渔5202号
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinMǐn Píng Yú 5540-hào

Min Ping Yu No. 5202 was a 50-foot (15 m) mainland Chinese fishing boat from Baiqing Township, Pingtan County, Fujian Province that sank on August 13, 1990, drowning 21 people, after being hit by Taiwan's naval vessel ROCS Wen Shan PF-834 while carrying out a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese illegal immigrants. Of the 50 mainland Chinese on board, 29 were rescued by Taiwan's Navy. It was the second tragedy in repatriation of mainland Chinese illegal immigrants in less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident, in which 25 Fujian residents being repatriated from Taiwan died from asphyxia.