ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, SATU&DAY -

Union

By JA ET ARCHIBALD Daily . New~ Staff Writer · One year and 10 months to the dl)y after her fiery collision with the. tanker "SirraJtti: off the Port of Anchorage, the Unio~ Oil tanker "Santa Maria" struck.the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey's .. Pathfinder" shortly after 5 p.m. · yesterday. The Pathfinder was anchored and the Santa Marla was heading into the port petroleum dock to discharge her cargo. Neither vessel appeared to be seriously d~aged . FOLLOWJ~G ·"t}le accident, the Santa Ma~;ia . s;oniinued on Anchorage Daily ~es 3 Monday. August 15, 1966 into the p~rpleum dock and \ the Pathfinder re-anchored off the port. The motor vessel Tustumena North Dock was berthed at the port term­ .inal when the ~c.,_cident took place but departelr b~fdredging early this appeared to be dragging as week. and convert its bar~e for she drifted astern down upon pile driving. The port dredging the Pathfinder. operation was to· be completed NOTilER eyewitne.ss said by a Manson ~ Osberg (kedge I t • ~ta Maria appeared to working at the Homer Spit. · 51!! ~ sharp right turn ahead Col. Clare Farley of the Corps of ~ji•Survey _vessel. of Engineers reported t h i s "It seeme? an, eas7 impact," morning that the completion of OIHt ,'man w;Iw .. saw the acci­ the Home,· ;_.spit work was d~nt, said Q( the collision. "critical .H· found that Pacific Marine Con­ What appears to be a -tangle of boats is the Cook I ,Maria continuing into the petroleum· dock to dis· .~els apart. The Northwmd structQfS ol Seattle would be 'un­ brought Inlet scene moments after the Union Oil tanker <:1'arge her cargo of 135,500 barrels c>f ·six grades o-f theA the Santa Maria abl~ to do the work. Santa Maria collided with the U.S. Coast and fire I. The ·collision came exactly 22 months after hf' into her berth·.-~· cert~ount of dredging Geodetic Survey's Pathfinder late Fr.iday afternoon ' -:Santli' Maria collided with the tanker Sirrah atlaJ?. And er~on . agr~d that I! e WLJSt be done before piles ClUl da mage to bb'th \esse!< ap. off the Port of Anchorage. Neither of the vessels ·proximately the same location. The earlier accident, \ I be driven for the new dock. 'f'€· r~ lo be light appeared to sustain serious damage with the Path­ which claimed one life, however, ripped one of the The City Council has approv­ On Oct. 19 196~. Santa ed paying up to . W5,000 finder re-anchoring after the mishap ~n~ the Santa vessel's compartments open and it caught fire. tol· Maria struc,..· \h(' Sirrah under Swalling-(;eneral_ forlfs l>arho~ ' conditio-ns which appt'ared to the ·dredging. IY'n" · · ) be Similar· to tl,o. e of ye,tN­ The cost of. the w~rk will have day afternoon. The late af­ reached tletween $160,000 and ternoon accident took place $165,000 by the end of the week, at approximately the sam!' lo­ Harned seid.. cation as the Santa Maria The ~ mtector said he did · was mnvtng into port on an not knelw: if. the city w9uld be '

1 ipcom1ng ti e. recompetlsed for ~ expense. ------I On!:! of th e vess~J's cum· All of the dredging was sup­ Anchorage Daily Times ~ ~rtments .,. as ripped open. posed to have )leen done under --.----· ------'----:; Tuesday. August 2. 1966 - The Santa Maria c•U~'' !u~ a $400.000 contract let to Pa­ I cific ~ the of ! and drifted ~p Kni!t A• ·· with· Corps the ttde The Sirn" was able E ...... S~eral - o lJr~ak away ·wj Jt did not was prepar­ burn. One Santa Maria crew ed to start. dock construction u 1 y 15 and subsequently member lost his life but the J 1 1 agreed to do what dredging was , rest of the crew wa~ re'c Jed necessary for dock work to be- by 'ugs that raced into the in­ ' !erno. g~ned said - ~~~e has been L •rcorrespondence with our con- . gressional d~eg!ltion to see if there is any wa:y the city can be recompenl!e.d.fpr the work it has· had to pay ·for - which originally ca!lle under. the corps j contract."

- Anch~rage Daily News, rlday, September 2, 1966 vrP.ort ·Offici aIs Set Meeting a request by : A special meftiq :of the I H ~ rned to rPrtrsr:•nkle Anchorage Port Co~ion staff to include a business k<141 been set for 'lao · p.m. manager and operations man­ $ept.' 7'. . ' , t • auer. Eugene Roessner, who • Tlie- commission... ' regular h~lds both position$, bas resJgn­ •d effective Aug. 15, to fake ;chectuted meeti.nj· ·•lu dur­ I ;n'other job. · • r , Ing tt.iiAbor Day tioliday and I Harned said the dual p~bon ~as belen cancelled. 1is "more than any one pec.son • The commissionr wilL· con­ can handle effectively." ;ider a lease for Tum-World Commissioners also a ved A.1aska in the industria fark, a move to raise the a nt final • eratio:ll ·~ first port director's salary t 000 pn-ase waterft d elop­ per year.. . . ment study and possible at­ In addition, comtnJSSJon,ers ap­ \endanee at eonventitits ill De- · proved sending two commis­ trait and Portland. sioners to Japan for a Japanese \ The commission will meet Trade Development conference, 1and sending other members to in the Municipal Light and Power Bui!.ding. Detroit and San Francisco this unique craft to provide charter cargo and pa~enger month for other meetings. The Bell SK5 air cushion vepicle il5 sh-own a 't \ service in the'inlet area. Textron's l3ell%erosystems skimmed alon~ .en: its first ~ ~ f:om ~he Co., U.S. licensee for the craft, is 'oining in spon­ port' are& ere.·~e hovercr:tl¥ vehicle 1s be , sed soring the demonstrations. 1 for 11''30-ifa ¢tration by Skimmers, Inc., an Anc1i" ·' · whic lans use two of the