The fire on an oil tanker involved in the crash in the North Sea has finally gone out, several days after it collided with a container ship near the Humber Estuary. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

The captain of the cargo ship MV Solong, which rammed into a US oil tanker off the British coast, has been identified as a Russian national

On Monday morning, about 13 miles off the coast of East Yorkshire, the Solong sailed into the US-registered tanker Stena Immaculate, which was carrying fuel for the US Navy. Fires broke out on board both vessels,

Ernst Russ, which owns Solong, confirmed the vessel’s captain had been arrested by Humberside Police on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter after a crew member was presumed dead when a search-and-rescue operation was ended on Monday evening.

A tanker and a cargo vessel collide

It is unclear how much fuel has been released into the sea but early assessments suggest the impact is limited with some fuel having burned off and evaporated. The Solong was still on fire on Tuesday but,

Footage shows how Coast Guard calls were heard from the North Sea ship collision. The Portuguese-registered cargo ship MV Solong crashed into the U.S. registered MV Stena Immaculate, a 600ft-long tanker transporting jet fuel,