Russian captain of ship that collided with U.S. tanker charged with manslaughter
LONDON – British police said on Friday the captain of a Russian cargo ship Collided with a U.S. tanker Criminalized for missing and presumed death of crew members.
Humberside police said Vladimir Motin, a master of Portugal’s iconic cargo ship Solong, will appear in Hull District Court on Saturday, accusing British legal authorities of “great negligence manslaughter”.
It is not clear where Motin is held or whether he approved the legal representative.
Motin, 59, is from St. Petersburg, Arrested in northeast England on TuesdayOn the second day of the collision with MV Stena Immaculate, an oil tanker transported jet fuel to the US military in the North Sea.
Humberside police confirmed that the missing crew was “now dead” after a large number of searches. It said the family was supported by professionally trained officials.
The Crown Prosecutor’s Office said that the 38-year-old Philippine country, Mark Angelo Pernia, was appointed as a crew member and was believed to have died in the collision.
“We have authorized Humberside police to accuse Russian nationals of a collision involving two ships on the North Sea off the east coast of England,” said Frank Ferguson, head of the Special Crimes and Counter-Terrorism Division of the Prosecutor’s Office.
Ernst Russ, a transport company that owns Solong, has previously stated that the 14 crew members of the ship are a combination of Russian and Filipino nationals.
British authorities said so far, nothing can indicate that it is related to national security.
The British Marine Accident Investigation Branch is also involved in investigating the cause of Solong’s collision with a fixed tanker from Grangemouth, Scotland to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which is fixed about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the British coast.
The survey was led by the United States and Portugal, the countries where the ship was marked.
Port inspection documents show that in July, Solong, in Dublin, Ireland, failed steering-related safety inspections, the ship’s “emergency steering position communication/compass reading” was unreadable. Inspectors found a total of 10 defects, including “insufficient alarms, survival craftsmanship,” “incorrect maintenance” and “not meeting requirements” fire doors.
Two other defects were found in October’s inspection in Scotland. After two inspections, the ship was not detained.
