The crew of a US oil tanker struck by a container ship in the North Sea have been praised as heroic for triggering a crucial firefighting system before abandoning the vessel.

Just one cargo tank was compromised when the Stena Immaculate burst into a fireball last Monday, its operator said.

The owners of an oil tanker involved in a collision with a cargo ship in the North Sea have praised the "heroic action" of ...

The “heroic” crew of a US oil tanker struck in the North Sea triggered a crucial fire-fighting system before abandoning ship.

“Heroic” crew on a US oil tanker triggered a crucial fire-fighting system before abandoning ship after a crash in the North ...

A missing crew member of a cargo ship which struck a tanker in the North Sea was identified by UK prosecutors as 38-year-old Filipino Mark Angelo Pernia. He is now presumed dead, police said.