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Summary Thirty-seven people have been brought ashore after a cargo vessel collided with an oil tanker off the east coast of England One person is in hospital while the other 36 mariners from both crews are "safe and accounted for", says local MP Graham Stuart Jet fuel is spilling into the North Sea following the collision off the East Yorkshire coast, the owner of the tanker says Video shows thick smoke billowing out from the tanker, with reports of a "massive fireball" being seen The US-flagged Stena Immaculate - which was carrying fuel for the US government - appears to...

LONDON (AP) — A cargo ship hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the American military off the coast of eastern England Monday, setting both vessels on fire and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea.SNIPThe U.S.-flagged chemical and oil products tanker MV Stena Immaculate was at anchor near the port of Grimsby on Monday morning after sailing from Greece, according to ship-tracking site VesselFinder. The cargo vessel, Portugal-flagged container ship Solong, was sailing from Grangemouth in Scotland to Rotterdam in the Netherlands when it struck the side of the tanker.

A U.S. oil tanker and a Panama-flagged cargo vessel have collided off the coast of Yorkshire, England, triggering a large-scale rescue operation Collision between a cargo ship and an oil tanker off the East Yorkshire coast in England has resulted in both vessels catching fire