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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:05:29 -0800
From: PeggLeg <reply@here.net>
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Here I go again: I don't think there was ever a documentary made about
it, but if you Google "Sansinena explosion" you should get some info. I
was surprised to find out that she was of Liberian registry. I somehow
got the idea she was ours. Guess not. It was sometime in 1976. A few
years after the explosion, Union Oil got the Sansinena II, a much
larger tanker that West Coast Shipping ran for them as a "crude
carrier". That just means that she only carried crude oil. Mostly, I
hear, from a platform just off of the Kenai Peninsula called "Drift
River". Actually, the platforms real name was "Christy Lee", and Drift
River was a small spot of light barely visible from the platform on the
land a mile or so away. The last tanker I was on went there a few
times, but she was a product carrier and not big enough for the crude
trade. Damn near froze my toes of trying to tie up at that bloody
platform one time! And the ice floes getting in and out...never liked
that place much. Loved Alaska, though! God it IS beautiful! If you ever
get a chance to see Ketchikan, GO. It will probably rain on you, but it
will be worth it. Green and pure. There is an island in the center of
the inlet where Ketchikan is that, according to one of the Chief Mates,
just got the telephone in the 1990s! Love it! You could look out there
and tell where there were oil lamps burning.
I'll stop. My I do get carried away...
PeggLeg (NOT a real one, though!)
In article <7809fah4i8bf8sai9osrvlufi52oahsdkq@4ax.com>, |--Spike=-
<|--Spike=-@Home.Co.UK> wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 16:57:29 -0800, PeggLeg <reply@here.net> wrote:
>
> >A "tanker stiff" was/is someone who sails only, or preferably, on oil
> >tankers. In WWII, tankers were a really hot "target" of U-boats so the
> >guys who sailed them got extra pay. After the war, the trend continued
> >and, generally, "tanker stiffs" got a bit more pay. It was dangerous.
> >Do you remember the Sansinena? My Mom was way down the coast (Calif.)
> >when it blew up and she said she "felt" it. And that was caused, they
> >said, by a nylon jacket being tossed over a steel pipeline during a
> >Butterworth operation (that is when tanks are cleaned with hot water),
> >when the ports in the deck were open. I don't know if they ever changed
> >their opinion of the cause, but it shows how dangerous it could be.
> >Today, it is much safer. Much, much safer! We have inert gas systems
> >and the Butterworth systems are built in to the deck. So, no open
> >hatches in the deck. While I have barked my shins on the lines more
> >than a few times, they are a whole bunch safer!
> >And..."tanker stiff" is just a nickname. The job title, at least my
> >last one, was QMED, which stands for "Qualified Member Engine
> >Department". Took 10 or 11 tests total, to cover each of the engine
> >department jobs, but it was still unlicensed. Less moolah, in other
> >words.
> >Sorry, didn't mean to get so blabby...
> >Thanks for the posts!
> >
> ===================================================
> NOT blabby At All Peggleg, it is all very interesting.
>
> I don't remember the Sansinena, I did a search of my archived
> collection and came up with No Hits :(
> Was hoping that there might have been something. I will check it
> online.
>
> I'm 48 and have never served in any type of Military service... just
> so that you know a bit about my (lack of) military, seafaring
> knowledge :)
>
> Being in the military over here (UK) is nowhere near as widespread as
> it is in the USA. My Ex. Wife (from Kentucky) had several
> family/extended family members in the armed forces... Me ! None !
> (just past ones from the WW2 era).
>
> Like I said, that's interesting stuff that I don't get to hear about
> in documentaries (so far).
> :)
>
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