A container ship and a tanker collided in the North Sea, with fires reported on both vessels. The alarm was raised at 09:48 GMT, and emergency response teams were quickly deployed.
According to the British Coastguard, a Humberside coastguard rescue helicopter, lifeboats from Skegness, Bridlington, Mablethorpe, and Cleethorpes, an HM Coastguard fixed-wing aircraft, and nearby vessels with firefighting capabilities were all dispatched to the scene.
The incident is believed to involve the US-flagged tanker Stena Immaculate and the container ship Solong, which sails under the flag of Madeira, an autonomous region of Portugal.
Real-time data from VesselFinder showed a flurry of high-speed vessels and a tugboat heading toward the collision site during the coastguard’s rescue operation.
The 2005-built boxship Solong, operated by Samskip, which departed from the Scottish port of Grangemouth on Sunday evening, was en route to the Dutch port of Rotterdam. Meanwhile, Stena Immaculate had been anchored off the coast near the city of Hull after arriving from Agioi Theodoroi in Greece last month.
The incident remains ongoing, according to the British coastguard.
