The boat sank 20km (12.4 miles) off the coast of Cox's Bazar district, Bangladeshi officials said.
Unfortunately, it was Eastertime and the colonials had all gone to Calcutta or Cox's Bazar for their jollies.
District Commissioner of Cox's Bazar, Jaynul Bari, told the BBC Bengali service the government was already helping the victims.
Bangladesh's meteorological department in Dhaka said the storm will hit areas along the coast at Cox's Bazar, the country's main tourist area.
They say despite a court order last year to remove all unauthorised structures from Cox's Bazar beach, hundreds of buildings and shops still remain.
They already compete for food, land and jobs with more than 200, 000 stateless Rohingyas, who live around Cox's Bazar, one of the poorest parts of Bangladesh.
Bangladeshi Tourism Minister Faruk Khan admits that there has been some unplanned growth in Cox's Bazar, but says the government is taking measures to protect the area.
Residents who took refuge in shelters in schools and government buildings are now returning home, and airports and ports are being reopened, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Cox's Bazar reports.
In Bangladesh's tourist zone of Cox's Bazar, local officials and humanitarian agencies were concerned about the estimated 250, 000 Rohingyas from Myanmar who live in squalid, makeshift huts along the shoreline.
Tension had been building up in the area hours before the rampage, and they say hundreds of people were brought in trucks and vans from Cox's Bazar and Chittagong districts.
Until about two decades ago, Cox's Bazar was a sleepy beach town which attracted mostly Bangladeshis looking to escape the noise and pollution of big cities like Dhaka and Chittagong.
In Bangladesh, at least 10 wooden trawlers carrying about 150 men sank off Cox's Bazar, a coastal resort south-east of the capital, Dhaka, a local official told the Associated Press.
Ruhul Amin, deputy commissioner of the Cox's Bazar district.
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