On the morning of October 12, 1983, the USS WILLIAM V. PRATT, a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer, was inbound in Pensacola Bay en route to the U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, for fueling. While the destroyer was backing and turning to port, tension on a towline heeled one of the two assisting tugs, the TECO No. 2, so far to starboard that water entered the tug's hull through open main deck doors, and the tug sank. No loss of life resulted from this accident, but two persons aboard the TECO No. 2 were injured seriously. The damage to the tug and salvage costs totaled an estimated $750,000. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the operator of the TECO No. 2 to require that the quarter line be properly tended and to require that the exterior main deck doors be kept closed while the TECO No. 2 was assisting in the docking of the USS WILLIAM V. PRATT. Contributing to the cause of this accident was a divided command structure, wherein the control of the tugs was not held by the same person who was controlling the PRATT, and the failure of the pilot to warn the operator of the TECO No. 2 that the PRATT was going to back down.


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    Titel :

    Marine Accident Report - Sinking of the U.S. Tug TECO Number 2 while Assisting in the Docking of the USS WILLIAM V. PRATT, Pensacola, Florida, October 12, 1983


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1984


    Format / Umfang :

    30 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch