Most of the jet fuel onboard the U.S.-flagged tanker Stena Immaculate that was hit by a container ship in a collision off Britain's coast remains contained and only two of the vessel's 18 fuel tanks have leaked,

The tanker that was hit at anchor off the coast of England in the North Sea was under contract by Military Sealift Command in support of the Defense Logistics Agency, USNI News has learned. The U.S.-flagged MV Stena Immaculate was at anchor when Portugeuse-flagged container ship MV Solong struck the tanker at about 5:48 a.

The captain of the Solong cargo ship who was arrested after crashing into an oil tanker off the coast of England is a Russian national, the ship’s owner Ernst Russ said Wednesday.

On Monday, in a tragic incident, a Portuguese-flagged cargo vessel called Solong, carrying toxic chemicals, crashed into a US-flagged tanker carrying jet fuel for the US Army off the UK coast. According to the reports quoting Solong’s owner,

The captain of a cargo ship that collided with a tanker containing U.S. armed forces jet fuel in the North Sea is a Russian national, according to the ship’s owners.