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.

Vladimir Motin accused of gross negligence manslaughter after his ship struck Stena Immaculate tanker on Monday

Motin was the master of the Ernst Russ-operated 804-teu Solong (built 2005) that collided with a Stena Bulk tanker on Monday off the northeast English coast. UK prosecutors named the seafarer who died in the collision as Mark Angelo Pernia, a Filipino crew member on the Portuguese-flagged Solong.

Mark Angelo Pernia, 38, has been named as the crew member who is still missing after the crash between the Solong container ship and the US oil tanker, the Crown Prosecution Service said. Thirty-six people from both vessels made it ashore.

The US-flagged MV Stena Immaculate was anchored off the Humber Estuary, 10 miles from Hull, when it burst into flames in a fireball after the Portuguese-flagged Solong rammed into it. Stena was loaded with more than 200,000 tons of highly flammable jet fuel for US warplanes, while both vessels were powered by heavy fuel.

Vladimir Motin, 59, the Russian captain of container ship Solong which crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea, has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter, Humberside Police said.

A view shows the damaged cargo ship Solong, after it collided with a hull of Stena Immaculate oil tanker ship, as seen from Saltfleet, Britain, March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo (Reuters) - British police said on Friday that they have charged the Russian captain of a container ship that crashed into a U.

The Russian captain of a cargo ship involved in Monday's crash with a tanker in the North Sea off the coast of England was charged Friday with gross negligence manslaughter, UK police said. The tanker,

The captain of the Portuguese-flagged Solong has been held in police custody since Monday following his arrest on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter after his ship hit the