Stena was loaded with more than 200,000 tons of highly flammable jet fuel for US warplanes, while both vessels were powered by heavy fuel.

Mark Angelo Pernia, 38, has been named as the crew member who is still missing after the crash between the Solong container ship and the US oil tanker, the Crown Prosecution Service said. Thirty-six people from both vessels made it ashore.

The captain of container ship Solong which crashed into a US oil tanker off the Yorkshire coast has appeared in court charged with gross negligence manslaughter.

The captain of the container ship Solong, which crashed with another ship in the North Sea, is a Russian national, it has emerged.

Most of the jet fuel onboard the U.S.-flagged tanker Stena Immaculate that was hit by a container ship in a collision off Britain's coast remains contained and only two of the vessel's 18 fuel tanks have leaked,

On Monday, in a tragic incident, a Portuguese-flagged cargo vessel called Solong, carrying toxic chemicals, crashed into a US-flagged tanker carrying jet fuel for the US Army off the UK coast. According to the reports quoting Solong’s owner,

The captain of a cargo ship that collided with a tanker containing U.S. armed forces jet fuel in the North Sea is a Russian national, according to the ship’s owners.