Two men have been arrested after a fire on a North Sea ferry led to six people being airlifted to hospital.
A 26-year-old was arrested on suspicion of arson and a 28-year-old was arrested on suspicion of affray.
RAF helicopters winched two passengers and four crew off the MS King Seaways, which was sailing to Amsterdam, when it was 30 miles off Flamborough Head.
The DFDS ferry, which returned to North Shields early on Sunday, had 946 passengers and 127 crew on board.
The six people who required medical attention were taken to Scarborough Hospital and have now been discharged.
Meanwhile, passengers have been disembarking following police interviews.
The two arrests were announced by Northumbria Police.
Earlier, Insp Andrew Dixon of Humberside Police said the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) had called them at about 23:00 GMT and had said a passenger was "believed to have set fire to a cabin".
"As a result of this incident, the person suspected of causing the fire, or the person from the cabin where the fire occurred - be it deliberate or accidental - has been detained by ship staff," he added.
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Ferry passenger Jamie Petterson: "Everyone was generally very calm"
Some 15 passengers and eight staff were checked on the ferry by a doctor, DFDS added in a statement.
It said the fire had started at about 22:45 GMT on Saturday but had been extinguished within 15 minutes.
Gert Jakobsen, a spokesman for ferry operator DFDS, said the ferry had been boarded by police and fire investigators, who spoke to crew members and passengers.
End Quote Steven Basford PassengerThe fire was on our floor but on the other side of the ship - when we climbed up to the communal area we could see the smoke. "
He told the BBC that customers who were now unable to travel to Amsterdam would be refunded.
However he added that the company would endeavour to help people to complete the journey.
Mr Jakobsen said: "We will do everything to help our passengers. There will be a ferry leaving tonight, there will be some spaces on that [and] there will be some spaces offered on other ferry lines.
"We hope to help as many as we can."
Steven Basford, who had been travelling to Amsterdam with his partner to celebrate the new year, described his experience of the fire alarm.
"We were in our room at about 10.40pm last night when they raised the general fire or emergency alarm with seven high-pitched siren noises," he said.
The 28-year-old, from Northumberland, went on: "We were told to evacuate outside the ship and when we got outside they asked us to converge around the lifeboats.
"The fire was on our floor but on the other side of the ship. When we climbed up to the communal area we could see the smoke. It wasn't thick but it was definitely noticeable.
"People were generally pretty calm."
The MCA said it would survey the vessel for any lasting damage.
The MCA's Jo Rawlings told BBC News that conditions for the rescue had been "fairly calm".
Helicopters from RAF Leconfield and RAF Boulmer were sent to the scene.
The RAF crew had lifted those affected off the ferry within an hour.
DFDS runs a daily 17:00 GMT service from North Shields, arriving in Ijmuiden, the Netherlands, at 08:30 GMT (09:30 local time).
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