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An anchoring tanker holding Jet’s fuel for the US military was hit by a vessel in the North Sea on Monday, causing explosions and a rescue operation for the 37 sailors aboard.
The crash, shortly before 10am with local time, lit large fires on both ships. The tanker, the immaculate stena, wore 18,000 tonnes of Jet A-1, a form of aviation fuel and suffered a rupture in a load tank.
The Sea and Coast Guard in the United Kingdom said he had sent salvation helicopters, rescue boats and firefighters on stage and was appreciating “the possible response to the required counter-poll”.
It was not clear immediately what caused the incident. Naval safety has improved significantly in recent decades as navigation tools and shipping ability to withstand collision have improved.
The Immaculate Stena was in a short -term statute of the US Navy’s military stamp command at the time of the collision, the command said.
The card was in the name of the energy of the Protection Logistics Agency (DLA), which buys and distributes oil products and services throughout the protection supply chain.
Since May 2023, Immaculate has been one of ten tankers in the US strategic tanker program flying with the American flag and collected by American citizens, kept ready to move fuel for the US military.
DLA said on Monday evening: “Stena Immaculate was planned to restore fuel in protecting the Killingholme fuel support point (at the near estuary of Humbher). It was then planned to recharge for distribution at other points, in the Mediterranean.
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The tracking of maritime trafficking information, the shipping information site, suggested that the container ship, Solong, had been plowed in the implemers while the tanker was in anchor.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, the area inside the collision, said he realized that one person was in the hospital and that 37 sailors were in total.
Ernst Russ to Germany, owner of the Solong transport company, said Monday evening that a search for a missing crew member was continuing after the collision had left both ships with “considerable damage”. The other 13 crew members were “safely brought ashore,” the company said.
Matthew Atkinson of HM Coastguard said later on Friday evening: “Thirty -six crew members were safely taken to shore, a person was taken to hospital. A member of the Solong crew remains unrecognized for him. After a wide search for the missing crew member, they are unfortunately not found.
“Both ships remain on fire and coastal guards are monitoring the situation. An assessment of any required response to the opposite pollution is being carried out by the maritime agency and coastal guards.
Immaculate Stena is managed by Crowley, a Florida -based marine logistics company. Its registered owner is Stena Bulk Marine Services, based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Crowley said Stena Immaculate had “suffered a tank of torn loads containing Jet-A1 fuel” after being “hit by the Solong containers’ ship and that” fuel was reported released “.
“The immaculate Stena crew abandoned the ship after numerous explosions on board. All Crowley mariners are safe and fully calculated, ”the company said.
According to maritime traffic, the Immaculate Stena held 18,000 tonnes of Jet A-1 from a refinery in Greece.
A report by Lloyd’s List Intelligence, a maritime information service, said the container ship load included sodium cyanide, a potentially very dangerous chemical.
The Transport Department said in a statement that he was working closely with the Coast Guards to help support the response to the incident. “We are grateful to all emergency staff for their continued efforts,” she said.
