The captain and two crew members of a Panama-registered cargo ship that sank off Taiwan's outlying Penghu Island group were rescued one day later by marine search and rescue personnel from Taiwan and China, but 11 other crew members remained missing, the Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau said Monday. The 1,375-ton Silver Sea sank some 86 nautical miles southwest of Penghu archipelago Sunday afternoon, while transporting 53 containers from Taiwan to the Philippines. It departed the Kaohsiung port for Manila around noon Saturday. The bureau said it received calls for help from the ship at 5: 25 p.m. Sunday and immediately asked the search command center under the Executive Yuan to launch rescue operations on the sea and from the air. The center swiftly dispatched military rescue helicopters to the area, while rescue helicopters and two patrol boats were also sent by the Ministry of the Interior and the Coast Guard Administration to the scene, the bureau said. The ship's captain, who is from Myanmar, was rescued by a Chinese ship around 9 a.m. Monday, while two crew members from Indonesia were saved by Taiwan's vessels and were sent to a hospital in Chiayi County later Monday. The Chinese vessel went to the scene after learning of the accident. Taiwan also sent rescue ships to the area where the ship sank, which is close to the imaginary middle line separating Taiwan and China in the Taiwan Strait. A Hong Kong cargo ship also sailed to the spot to help with rescues. As of 5: 00 p. m. Monday, the remaining 11 crew members were still missing. Although several rescue helicopters were sent to search for the victims, pilots only saw some containers, the wreckage of the ship and an empty life-saving boat floating on the sea, the Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau added. Meanwhile, the Tsoying marine base in southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung City, has sent several ships to the area to continue searching for survivors, the center noted. 