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Estuary this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The oil tanker is now on fire, with firefighters, HM Coastguard and Royal National Lifeboat Institution on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic footage shows the moment the alarm was raised at 9.48am.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"502\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22700419 lazyload\" alt=\"Tessaron_News @Tessaronnews The U.S.-flagged oil\/chemical tanker Stena Immaculate is on fire fire after being struck by the Portugal-flagged container ship Solong while at anchor off the Humber Estuary in the United Kingdom. Search and rescue helicopters were dispatched to the scene to assist.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_243309880-7df7-e1741610422813.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The U.S.-flagged oil\/chemical tanker Stena Immaculate is on fire (Picture: @Tessaronnews)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The SOS call begins with a Humber Coastguard official announcing the coordinates of the collision.<\/p>\n<p>He then adds: \u2018Solong has collided with Tanker Stena Immaculate in the outer anchorage. <\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/11\/rescuer-says-its-a-miracle-didnt-die-north-sea-oil-tanker-crash-22704312\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/11\/rescuer-says-its-a-miracle-didnt-die-north-sea-oil-tanker-crash-22704312\/\">Follow our live updates on the oil tanker crash <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Both vessels are abandoning. Vessels who have firefighting equipment or who can assist with search and rescue contact Humber Coastguard. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Vessel Stena Immaculate is carrying Jet A 1 fuel which is on fire and in the water\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>An HM Coastguard spokesperson said of the incident: \u2018HM Coastguard is currently co-ordinating the emergency response to reports of a collision between a tanker and cargo vessel off the coast of East Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The alarm was raised at 9.48am.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"485\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22700420 lazyload\" alt=\"Tessaron_News @Tessaronnews The U.S.-flagged oil\/chemical tanker Stena Immaculate is on fire fire after being struck by the Portugal-flagged container ship Solong while at anchor off the Humber Estuary in the United Kingdom. Search and rescue helicopters were dispatched to the scene to assist.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_243309828-b91e.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The fire is being tackled by fire crew<br \/>(Picture: @Tessaronnews)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018A Coastguard rescue helicopter from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/humberside\/\">Humberside<\/a>\u00a0was called, alongside lifeboats from Skegness, Bridlington, Maplethorpe and Cleethorpes, an HM Coastguard fixed wing aircraft, and nearby vessels with fire-fighting capability.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The incident remains ongoing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A mayday call is the international signal to notify life-threatening distress.<\/p>\n<p>They are limited to use in the case of \u2018grave and imminent danger to a vessel or persons, such as fire, sinking, man overboard etc.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>In a number of countries, anyone making a false mayday call could be prosecuted under criminal law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T44S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/11\/08\/96057913-0-image-a-7_1741682812407.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-03-10T12:09:08+0000″,”description”:”A coastguard helicopter has been dispatched to the anchorage and is currently co-ordinating a response with local firefighters after container ship MV Solong collided with oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate.”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/03\/11\/1596838360314692462\/480x270_MP4_1596838360314692462.mp4″,”height”:270,”width”:480} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page window.addEventListener(‘metroVideo:relatedVideosCarouselLoaded’, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}