PORT ANGELES — An oil tanker that ran aground in Alaska and is scheduled to unload its cargo in Anacortes before being repaired in Victoria was slated to leave Port Angeles Harbor on Thursday night.
The Seabulk Pride, a 601-foot tanker with two cracks in its exterior hull, has been undergoing inspection and repairs in Port Angeles, a Coast Guard spokesman said Thursday.
Its next scheduled stop is Anacortes, where it will unload about 900,000 gallons of oil and fuel.
“That’s the plan at this time,” said Petty Officer 3rd Class Jeff Pollinger, a spokesman for the Coast Guard’s command in Seattle, on Thursday.
The ship has not leaked any oil.
Tanker ran aground
The ship was being loaded at a Tesoro refinery dock on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska on Feb. 2 when an ice floe knocked it from its moorings.
It drifted to a nearby beach, where it ran aground.
During high tide the next day, three tugboats pulled the tanker into the deeper waters of Cook Inlet.
A water ballast tank in its outer hull received two 5- to 7-inch cracks, which were temporarily repaired with patches.
The Seabulk Pride is owned by Seabulk International Inc. and is leased to Tesoro Alaska Co.
The 7-year-old ship also lost an anchor and incurred other topside damage from running aground.
Coast Guard and state Department of Ecology officials boarded the ship Wednesday for inspections.
On Thursday, crews were replacing the anchor, and Pollinger said that may have held up the ship’s departure.
Pollinger did not know if the patches on the cracks were checked, but said it was a “thorough inspection.”