MV Summit Venture

She sank off the Vietnamese coast in November 2010 when the holds took in water. Summit Venture was a bulk carrier built in 1976 by Oshima Shipbuilding of Nagasaki, Japan, as Yard Number 10006. Her length overall was 609 feet (186 m) long, breadth 85.5 feet (26.1 m), depth 50.9 feet (15.5 m) and draft 36.5 feet (11.1 m); the ship's gross tonnage was 19,735, net tonnage 13,948 and deadweight tonnage 33,912. Summit Venture was propelled by a 11,550 bhp (8,610 kW) diesel engine of Sulzer design, made in Japan by Sumitomo Heavy Industries and driving a single screw. Launched on May 18, 1976, the ship was completed on August 26 that year for Hercules Carriers Inc of Liberia, where she was also registered. Venture Shipping (Managers) Ltd of Hong Kong were the ship's operators. Summit Venture was involved in a fatal collision with the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, Florida in the morning of May 9, 1980. Inward bound in ballast for the Port of Tampa under compulsory pilotage, while negotiating a required turn in the narrow channel in stormy weather, with heavy rain and squalls, the radar failed during a squall.