LONDON – The captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker is a Russian nationwide who stays in U.Okay. police custody, the vessel’s proprietor stated Wednesday.
The 59-year-old man, who hasn’t been named by authorities, was arrested by police in northeast England Tuesday on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence over the collision. He hasn’t been charged.
Transport firm Ernst Russ, which owns the Portugal-flagged cargo vessel Solong, stated that the ship’s 14 crew have been a mixture of Russian and Filipino nationals.
U.Okay. authorities say they don’t suspect foul play within the crash.
Port inspection paperwork present the Solong failed steering-related security checks in Dublin, Eire, in July, with the vessel’s “emergency steering place communications/compass studying” unreadable. Inspectors discovered a complete of 10 deficiencies, together with “insufficient” alarms, survival craft “not correctly maintained” and hearth doorways “not as required.”
An inspection in Scotland in October discovered two different deficiencies. The ship wasn’t detained after both inspection.
The cargo ship collided Monday with MV Stena Immaculate, a tanker transporting jet fuel for the U.S. military within the North Sea off jap England on Monday, setting each vessels ablaze. One sailor from the Solong is lacking and presumed lifeless. The opposite 36 crew members from the 2 vessels have been introduced safely ashore, with no main accidents.
The Solong was drifting and nonetheless on hearth Wednesday, however is more likely to stay afloat relatively than sinking, officers stated.
The 183-meter (596-foot) Stena Immaculate was working as a part of the U.S. authorities’s Tanker Safety Program, a bunch of business vessels that may be contracted to hold gas for the navy when wanted.
The collision despatched jet gas pouring into the ocean and sparked fears of serious environmental harm. Environmentalists stated that oil and chemical substances posed a danger to sea life, together with whales and dolphins and to birds, together with puffins, gannets and guillemots that dwell on coastal cliffs.
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