“We are very shocked. After what we experienced last night, we will have many nightmares,” said Ludovic Rabasse, captain of the French trawler Loïc Lucas after being rescued from the English Channel early today.
According to French media, the crew was floating in a liferaft for 30 minutes after being hit by the vessel Ambassadeur, a 6,000 DWT Dutch freighter operated by Ter Stege Rederji.
All four crew members of the Loïc Lucas were rescued by a nearby fishing vessel.
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Two oil tankers collided and caught fire on Tuesday near the Strait of Hormuz, where electronic interference has surged during conflict between Iran and Israel, but there were no injuries to crew or spillage reported.
Only one tank filled with jet fuel was damaged after the U.S. military-contracted tanker that was transporting a shipment was struck by a cargo ship off England's northeast coast, U.S. logistics firm Crowley said.
The captain of a ship that hit a U.S. tanker off northeast England is a Russian national, the company which owns the vessel said, as police continued their inquiries into the accident and fears over the environmental impact of the crash eased.
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