The UK's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) announced today that it has received a report of an incident at the Strait of Hormuz, 16 nautical miles north of Oman, where a ship was contacted by radio by several small armed boats. The ship's captain ignored the request to stop and continued sailing. The ship in issue is the Stena Imperative tanker of 30 thousand tons of gross tonnage of the Swedish Stena Bulk. The ship beats US flag and in recent months has been used by the US Navy's Military Sealift Command. According to the British Vanguard Tech, the boats that approached the Stena Imperatives belonged to the Corps of Guards Iranian revolutionaries and would have ordered the commander of turn off the engines and prepare for boarding, request not accepted by the captain who would have communicated that the ship is not never entered Iranian territorial waters.