The Russian captain of a cargo ship involved in Monday's crash with a tanker in the North Sea off the coast of England was charged Friday with gross negligence manslaughter, UK police said.

Vladimir Motin was captain of a cargo ship that hit a tanker, carrying jet fuel for the US military, off England in the North Sea at close to full speed this week.

Vladimir Motin, who was the master of the Portugal-flagged cargo vessel Solong, was charged with manslaughter.

The Russian captain of a cargo ship involved in Monday's collision with a tanker in the North Sea off the coast of England was charged Friday with gross negligence manslaughter, UK police said. "The ...

An oil tanker carrying jet fuel was recently hit by a cargo ship while at anchor 13 miles (21km) off the east coast of ...

The captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker is a Russian national who remains in U.K. police custody. The ...

The captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker is a Russian national who remains in U.K. police custody.

The 59-year-old captain was arrested by police in northeast England on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence over the ...

The police in Britain detained the ship’s captain on suspicion of gross negligence after it crashed into an oil tanker that ...

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 ...