Fires aboard a cargo ship and a tanker which collided in the North Sea off the East Yorkshire coast have continued to burn overnight. Coastguard aircraft were monitoring the situation with the vessels still alight on Tuesday morning. A search for a missing crew member from the cargo ship was called off on Monday night. HM Coastguard said efforts to find the person from the Solong container ship had ended after “an extensive search”, following the ship’s collision with the Stena Immaculate tanker on Monday morning.
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00:00Hello, I'm Greg Wright of the Yorkshire Post.
00:03Fires on board a cargo ship Natanka, which collided in the North Sea off the East Yorkshire coast, have continued to burn overnight.
00:13Coast Guard were monitoring the situation, with the vessels still alight on Tuesday morning.
00:19A search for a missing crew member from the cargo ship was called off on Monday night.
00:25Coast Guard said efforts to find the person from the Solong container ship had ended after an extensive search,
00:32following the ship's collision with a Stena Immaculate tanker on Monday morning.
00:37The company managing the Stena Immaculate, Crowley, said the vessel was struck by the Solong while anchored off the coast,
00:44causing multiple explosions on board, and jet fuel it was carrying to be released.