Humberside Police said the 59-year-old was arrested in connection with the collision between the Stena Immaculate and Solong in the North Sea on Monday. The cargo ship's owner Ernst Russ later said the captain was the man arrested.

A ship captain arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter after a North Sea collision into an US oil tanker is a Russian national. The details emerged from Ernst Russ, the company that owns the Solong cargo ship involved in the North Sea collision off the coast of Hull on Monday.

The under-arrest captain of container ship Solong which crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea is a Russian national, the ship's owner Ernst Russ said. Solong struck the Stena Immaculate off the east coast of Yorkshire on Monday morning.

The arrested captain of a cargo ship that hit a stationary tanker in the North Sea causing a huge blaze is a Russian national, the ship's owner told AFP Wednesday.

Crowley, a Florida-based maritime conglomerate, said the Stena Immaculate suffered a rupture in a cargo tank carrying A1 jet fuel after the ship sustained an “allision” — a term that implies the ship was stationary and struck by the Solong. Fuel was released, the company said.

A crash between a fuel tanker and a container ship off the English coast should be subject to a transparent and internationally coordinated investigation, a global seafarers' union said on Wednesday.

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.

The captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker is a Russian national who remains in U.K. police custody

A tanker and a cargo vessel collide

A 59-year-old cargo ship captain has been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter over the incident, police say