Mrs Brown and her husband spent more than £50,000 of their savings to cover money that appeared to be missing from their branch in County Durham due to the faulty Horizon software.
Their captain was the last person to leave the ship, the sailor said. He described flames licking at the crew as they headed for the lifeboats. Some even had their hair singed.The whole process took about 30 minutes, he told CBS.
A total of 36 crew members from both vessels were brought back to shore. One person was taken to hospital.The collision took place about 13 miles (20km) off the East Yorkshire coast, near Hull and Grimsby, in a busy shipping area.The Stena Immaculate was anchored and drifting at a speed of 0.1 knots at 09:48 GMT on Monday, according to ship tracking site MarineTraffic.
The tanker had been anchored there since Sunday evening, while the Solong had been approaching from the north after setting off from Grangemouth in Scotland on the same night.The vessels are the oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate and a cargo ship called Solong. Here is a graphic to show how they compare:
The Stena Immaculate is a US-flagged ship that was transporting jet fuel for the US military.
Crowley, the firm which manages the ship, said it was unclear how much fuel might have been released but the tanker had been carrying 220,000 barrels of jet fuel when it was struck.The four former sub-postmasters were among the 700 or so people who the company took legal action against between 1999 and 2015.
This happened after the Post Office's faulty computer system Horizon appeared to show money was missing from branch accounts.More than 100 convictions have been overturned, with legal actions and police investigations still taking place.
as the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.Hundreds of sub-postmasters took legal action against the Post Office in 2017 in a campaign led by Sir Alan Bates, who was knighted in the