A fundamental rescue operation is under advent adjoining a keel carrying 83 passengers also crew also a freight of bovines sank extirpate the north Lebanese coast in a storm.
The Panamanian-flagged Danny F II psyched out 11 miles (20km) off Tripoli beside sending a distress signal.
At least 19 survivors from the vessel - sailing from Uruguay to the Syrian port of Tartous - believe been picked up, officials said.
Lebanon has been hit by severe thunderstorms and flooding.
One of those saved was from the Philippines and wider from Pakistan, a Lebanese rescue official said.
"They were immensely scared and numbing when we pulled them outmost of the water," he told AFP news agency.
"If the sea remains inanimate we hope to asset additional survivors, but if the storm kicks expansion further accordingly they be credulous snap chance of surviving for more than an hour in the water," he said.
All the livestock were presumed dead, he added.
A Lebanese military spokesman said the crew had juncture to don life jackets before the boat capsized.
The ship's operator, Agencia Schandy, told AFP command Montevideo that those on board the Danny F II included six passengers - four Uruguayans, one Brazilian and an Australian.
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