Massive fireball’ after oil tanker hit by cargo ship ‘carrying sodium cyanide’ - The Solong cargo ship was carrying 15 containers of the highly toxic compound sodium cyanide, a Lloyd's List Intelligence casualty report said.

The 36 crew members of both vessels have been evacuated to port, none have had to be hospitalized. Two ships, a tanker and a cargo ship, collided on Monday in the North Sea off the coast of East Yorkshire.

Fears are mounting of a potential environmental disaster off the coast of Britain after a cargo ship smashed into an oil tanker transporting jet fuel for the US military.