LONDON — 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.
Ernst Russ AG, the German owner of the Portuguese-flagged Solong, told Reuters the 59-year-old captain, who was arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter following the incident Monday morning, is Russian.
Solong crashed into the U.S. tanker Stena Immaculate off the East Yorkshire coast. The tanker was carrying around 35 million liters of aviation fuel for the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command.
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United States, Portuguese and British authorities are still probing the North Sea crash that set both vessels alight and triggered a major rescue operation.
