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Neil Lancefield
The Press Association
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A container ship which crashed with an oil tanker in the North Sea failed steering-related safety checks in Ireland and was captained by a Russian national, it has emerged.
Port state control (PSC) inspection documents from July last year show Irish officials deemed Solong's "emergency steering position communications/compass reading" was "not readable".