The “heroic” crew of a US oil tanker struck in the North Sea triggered a crucial fire-fighting system before abandoning ship.

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.

The owner of the Solong cargo ship, Ernst Russ, said 13 of the 14 Solong crew members have been brought ashore to Grimsby, adding efforts to locate one crewmember are "ongoing"

The Stena Immaculate and cargo ship Solong collided off the East Yorkshire coast at about 10:00 GMT on Monday. One crew member of the Solong, Mark Angelo Pernia, is missing, presumed dead. In a statement,

Just one cargo tank was compromised when the Stena Immaculate burst into a fireball last Monday, its operator said.