An oil tanker and a cargo collided off the coast of eastern England on Monday, setting fire to the two ships and triggering a major rescue operation, emergency services said.
The British maritime agency and Coast Guard said that several rescue canoes and a coastal guard rescue helicopter had been sent to the northern sea, as well as a coastal plane and nearby ships with a fire-fighting capacity.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution said: “It has been reported that a number of people had abandoned the ships after a collision and that there were fires on both ships.” He said three rescue canoes were working on research and rescue on the spot alongside the Coast Guard.
TV images of the BBC showed at least one fire on fire with clouds of black smoke that escapes in the air.
The oil tanker, considered as the carrier of chemicals and flag oil to the United States MV STENA IMMACULATE, was at the anchor at the time, according to the follow-up ship of the ship’s monitoring site. The cargo ship, the container carrier Solong, sailed from Grangemouth in Scotland to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
The maritime and coast guard agency said the alarm was lifted at 9:48 a.m. GMT. The collision site is off the Hull coast, about 250 kilometers north of London.
The United Nations Maritime Agency, the international maritime organization, is aware of the situation and checks more, he said.
