Power restored to tanker; vessel departs Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Exxon tanker that lost power Sunday while leaving Alaska’s Prince William Sound is under way again.

Coast Guard Lt. Herbert Law says the tanker Kodiak departed at 4:50 a.m. Monday from a safe harbor at Knowles Head, where tugboats had towed the 831-foot vessel.

Law says the Kodiak will head to San Francisco to offload its oil, then go to Seattle for permanent repairs.

The tanker departed from Port Valdez early Sunday morning but lost power when a rear 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.

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