Peninsula Daily News and The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An oil tanker that lost power Sunday while leaving Alaska’s Prince William Sound is under way again.
Coast Guard Lt. Herbert Law said the tanker, SeaRiver Kodiak — which regularly visits Port Angeles Harbor as it delivers to refineries in Puget Sound — departed at 4:50 a.m. Monday from a safe harbor at Knowles Head, where tugboats had towed the 831-foot vessel.
Law said the Kodiak will head to San Francisco to offload its oil, then go to the Northwest for permanent repairs.
The tanker departed from Port Valdez, Alaska, early Sunday morning but lost power when an aft steam generator overheated.
Power was transferred to a forward steam generator with an auxiliary generator as a backup, an arrangement that the Coast Guard approved for the ship to sail.
The tanker is carrying about 613,000 barrels, or more than 25 million gallons, of crude oil.
The double-hull tanker, which was named Tonsina until it was sold to SeaRiver Maritime Co., the transport arm of Exxon Mobil, was built in 1978 and is the oldest on the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, or TAPS, route.
