Container ship 'Solong' towed to Scottish coast weeks after collision in North Sea

Record ID: 1986520

  • Title: Container ship 'Solong' towed to Scottish coast weeks after collision in North Sea
  • Date: 28th March 2025
  • Summary: ITURI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (MARCH 27, 2025) (REUTERS) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO ARMED FORCES (FARDC) GENERAL, YCHALIGONZA NDURU JACQUES, GREETING UGANDAN OFFICERS UGANDAN MILITARY AT RWAPARA CAMP RWANDAN AND UGANDAN OFFICERS SEATED ITURI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (MARCH 28, 2025) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (French) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO ARMED FORCES (FARD
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  • Keywords: BRITAIN COLLISION CONTAINER SHIP NORTH SEA SOLONG STENA IMMACULATE TANKER
  • Location: ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
  • City: ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Country: UK
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Sea Accidents,Europe
  • Reuters ID: LVA001238028032025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The charred remains of the ship that ploughed into a tanker in the North Sea were towed into a Scottish port on Friday (March 28).
    The ship, Portuguese-flagged Solong, hit the anchored Stena Immaculate, a U.S. military-contracted tanker, on March 10, causing a fire, and forcing both crews to abandon their vessels.
    Initial concerns of an environmental disaster subsided as assessments showed the jet fuel had mostly burned off and there was no sign of other leaks from either ship.
    All 23 crew members of the Stena Immaculate and 13 of the 14 crew on the Solong were rescued. A Filipino national and Solong crew member Mark Angelo Pernia, 38, died in the incident.
    (Production: Phil Noble, Vitalii Yalahuzian)
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