One crew member is still unaccounted for and the search has been called off after "an extensive search", HM Coastguard said. The collision involved the US-registered Stena Immaculate - which was transporting fuel on behalf of the US military - and the Portuguese-flagged Solong.

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.

British officials are bracing for environmental damage after a cargo ship carrying a toxic chemical hit a tanker transporting jet fuel off eastern England