The RAF and Coastguard responded after a UK-sanctioned tanker carrying suspected Russian oil sent a distress signal in stormy North Atlantic conditions.

The sanctioned oil tanker Myra, sailing from Ust-Luga, Russia toward Port Said, Egypt, sent an Inmarsat-C distress alert on Saturday, October 24, about 270-290 nautical miles west of the Outer Hebrides in 8.8-metre waves and 70-knot gusts, prompting a response from RAF Lossiemouth and Aberdeen Coastguard.