A passenger ship that had run aground on an uninhabited island in Sinan County, South Jeolla, was moved to Mokpo Port. The Korea Coast Guard launched an investigation to determine the cause of the accident.
According to the Mokpo Maritime Police Station on the 20th, Queen Zenobia No. 2, which had run aground on Jokdo (an uninhabited island) in Jangsan-myeon, Sinan County, South Jeolla, entered the Mokpo passenger terminal at 5:44 a.m. that day. It was 9 hours and 27 minutes after the accident occurred.
Queen Zenobia No. 2 rode up onto the edge of the island, but the hull did not rupture or leak. As a result, four tugboats tied lines to the stern and pulled the vessel free from the grounding, after which it was able to proceed under its own power.
The Korea Coast Guard suspects the captain's or the navigator's negligence caused the accident and said it would investigate the exact circumstances based on closed-circuit (CC)TV footage showing the interior and exterior of the hull and the voyage data recorder.
Queen Zenobia No. 2 departed Jeju at about 4:45 p.m. the previous day carrying 267 people, including 246 passengers and 21 crew members. It ran aground on Jokdo at about 8:16 p.m. the same day. All passengers were rescued safely.