The captain arrested in a crash into a U.S. flagged tanker off the coast of England is a Russian national, the owner of the vessel said on Wednesday.

A tanker and a cargo vessel collide

One crew member is presumed dead after the container ship Solong crashed into an American oil tanker off the east coast of England on Monday.

The captain of a cargo ship that struck a tanker and sparked a massive blaze in the North Sea will be held in custody for a further 36 hours, UK police said Thursday.

It is unclear how much fuel has been released into the sea but early assessments suggest the impact is limited with some fuel having burned off and evaporated. The Solong was still on fire on Tuesday but,

A fire on an oil tanker involved in a crash in the North Sea has gone out, several days after the collision. Container ship Solong struck the Stena Immaculate off the east coast of Yorkshire on Monday morning.