Golden Venture
cargo ship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Golden Venture
- IMO number
- 7653698
- MMSI
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- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- cargo ship
- Gross tonnage
- 198
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 45 m
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1969
- Builder
- —
- Registered owner
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- Operator
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Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Golden Venture
Golden Venture was a 147-foot-long (45 m) cargo ship that ran aground on the beach at Fort Tilden on the Rockaway peninsula of Queens, New York, United States, on June 6, 1993, at around 2 a.m. The ship had 13 crew members who were smuggling 286 undocumented immigrants from China (mostly Fuzhou people from Fujian province) to the U.S. The ship had sailed from Bangkok, Thailand, stopped in Kenya, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, then headed northwest across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City on its four-month voyage. Ten people drowned in their attempts to flee the ship and get to shore in the United States when it ran aground. The survivors were taken into custody by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and were held in various prisons throughout the U.S. while they applied for the right of asylum. Roughly 10% were granted asylum after U.S.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Golden Venture now?
- Golden Venture has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Golden Venture?
- Golden Venture is a cargo ship, built in 1969. The vessel is 45 m long and has a gross tonnage of 198.
- Has Golden Venture been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Golden Venture appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).