An oil tanker and a cargo vessel collided off the British coast in the North Sea on Monday, the U.K. coast guard said.

One of the most famous black seamen was James Forten, who enlisted on the privateer Royal Louis as a powder boy, was captured along with his ship's crew, and spent time on a British prison barge ...

The US-flagged tanker Stena Immaculate was involved in a collision with the Portuguese-flagged Solong container ship. Most of the jet fuel onboard remained intact, with only two of the 18 tanks ...

The Solong container ship, involved in a collision off England's northeast coast, is unlikely to stay afloat, according to British maritime minister Mike Kane. The incident led to the assumption that ...

These stated that all commodity trade should take place in British ships, manned by British seamen, trading between British ports and those within the Empire. Additional laws were introduced that ...