Tom Callis has the story in the Peninsula Daily News:
[The articulated tug-barge Commitment is escorted into Port Angeles Harbor by the tug Jeffery Foss on Wednesday after the Commitment lost power in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News]
PORT ANGELES — A tug pushing a barge full of BP fuel arrived in Port Angeles Harbor for inspection Wednesday evening after temporarily losing power in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The 170-foot articulated tug-barge Commitment lost power shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday about 19 miles northwest of Port Angeles.
The barge contained 8 million gallons of diesel and jet fuel. It was being pushed by the tug component to Portland, Ore., from BP’s Cherry Point refinery, said Curt Hart, state Department of Ecology spokesman.
In such vessels, called ATBs, the tug and barge operate together.
It contained more than 100,000 gallons of fuel.
