Four crew members have died and seven are missing after a cargo ship collided with another vessel and sank off the Dutch coast.
"We can confirm that four bodies have been found, along with 13 people rescued alive," said Coast Guard spokesman Marcel Oldenburger.
An air and sea rescue operation involving several helicopters, two navy patrol ships and even one of the ships involved in the collision has now been suspended.
"We have suspended the search until first light," Coast Guard spokesman Peter Verburg said.
"The chances of finding them alive are slim," he added, saying there was a chance that some of the crew may have gone down with the stricken vessel.
The 485ft Baltic Ace collided with the 440ft container ship Corvus J near busy shipping lanes some 40 miles off the coast of the southern Netherlands.
Baltic Ace was heading from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge to Kotka in Finland and the Corvus J was on its way from Grangemouth in Scotland to Antwerp, Belgium.
Earlier, 13 crew members were rescued from the Baltic Ace.
Four were flown to a hospital in Rotterdam, seven taken by rescue helicopter to a hospital in Belgium and two were being treated on board a ship that found them.
A coast guard spokesman said the cause of the collision was not known.
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