Exxon Valdez (original) (raw)
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| Career | |
| Ordered: | ? |
| Laid down: | ? |
| Launched: | ? |
| Delivered: | 11 December 1986 |
| Fate: | "mothballed" in undisclosed Mediterranean port |
| Laid Up: | September 2002 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 211,469 tons |
| Length: | 987 feet |
| Beam: | 166 feet |
| Draft: | 64.5 feet maximum |
| Speed: | 16.25 knots |
| Complement: | 21 crew |
| Cargo Capacity: | 1.48 million barrels (62.16 million gallons) of crude oil |
Exxon Valdez was the original name of an oil tanker owned by the Exxon oil company. The ship was renamed to SeaRiver Mediterranean after the March 24, 1989 oil spill in which the tanker hit Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef; this was the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
The vessel has an all steel construction, built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San Diego. It was delivered to Exxon in December, 1986. The tanker is 987 feet long, 166 feet wide and 88 feet in depth, weighing 30,000 tons empty and powered by a 31,650 s.h.p. diesel engine. The vessel could transport a maximum of 1.48 million barrels at a sustained speed of 16.25 knots and was employed to transport crude oil from the Alyeska consortium's pipeline terminal in Valdez, Alaska to the lower 48 states of the United States.