A 59-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of manslaughter, the police in northern England said, after a container ship crashed into an oil tanker in the North Sea a day earlier, leaving one crew member missing and presumed dead. The container ship, the Solong, struck the Stena Immaculate, an anchored oil tanker that was carrying jet fuel and was being operated by the U.S. Navy at the time, officials said. One crew member from the Solong was missing, and an extensive search was called off on Monday night, Britain’s Coast Guard said. The Humberside Police in England said in a statement that it had begun a criminal investigation into the cause of the crash. Craig Nicholson, the detective chief superintendent, said the department had subsequently “arrested a 59-year-old man on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter in connection with the collision.”

Source: The Times March 12, 2025 01:33 UTC