On 10 March 2025, the container ship MV Solong collided with the oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate, which was at anchor in the North Sea off the coast of East Yorkshire.
4a MV Solong Aarhus 220918
SEAWAY STRASHNOV & STENA IMMACULATE
Damaged MV Solong arrives in Aberdeen South Harbour.
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Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuar
2025 North Sea ship collision
…on the evening of 10 March. Stena Immaculate had travelled from Agioi Theodoroi in Greece, and was at anchor 14 nautical miles (26 km) north-east of Spurn Head, waiting to arrive at Killingholme. This location was a common but uncharted anchorage for vessels off the Humber; five other tankers and three bulk…
Spurn in February 2017, showing the lighthouse and sand-dunes.
Spurn lighthouse
Settlement on Spurn Head c. 1904.
Settlement on Spurn Head in 2009