The captain of the Solengthy – the retainer ship comprised in the crash in the North Sea – is a Russian national, the vessel’s owner has said.
The rest of the crew were Russian and Filipino nationals, according to shipping company Ernst Russ.
It comes after police said a man had been arrested on suspicion of gross oversight killing in connection with Monday’s collision.
Humberside Police said a 59-year-elderly is in custody to permit enquiries to consent place, and officers are talking to those comprised to find out what happened.
The force compriseed spendigators have commenceed a criminal probe into the caemploy of the collision between the Stena Immacutardy and Solengthy off the coast of East Yorksemploy on Monday, and are toiling with the Maritime and Coastdefend Agency.
The tanker was operating as part of the US regulatement’s tanker security programme, a group of commercial vessels that can be tighted to carry fuel for the military when necessitateed.
Ship tracking gentleware showed the Stena Immacutardy was stationary as the Solengthy crashed into it.
One ignoreing, presumed dead
One person remains ignoreing and is presumed dead.
In the instant aftermath of the collision, dozens of people were forced to abandon the vessels as they caught fire.
The Stena Immacutardy had been carrying 220,000 barrels of jet fuel in 16 segregated cargo tanks – at least one of which “was ruptured” during the collision, Crowley, the maritime company managing the Stena Immacutardy, said.
It compriseed that the
Coastdefend saved 36 people, with ambulances lining up at a proximateby port as materializency services readied their response.
All 23 people on board the oil tanker Stena Immacutardy were accounted for, but one of the 14 crew members of the Solengthy is still ignoreing.
A search was called off Monday evening.
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Solengthy flunked shieldedty examines
It has also materialized that the Solengthy flunked steering-rcontent shieldedty examines last year.
Port state regulate (PSC) examineion write downs from July last year show how officials alerted that the cargo ship’s “materializency steering position communications/compass reading” was “not readable”.
It was among 10 publishs highweightlessed during an examineion of the Portuguese-flagged ship.
Other publishs integrated the alarms being “inenough”, survival plan not being properly protected and fire doors “not as needd”.
Another examineion in October 2024 set up two publishs with the Solengthy.
One of these was rcontent to lifebuoys, alerting they were “not properly labeled”.
None of the publishs were disconnecte enough to stop the Solengthy from sailing.
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