T/V PHILADELPHIA; San Francisco, CA

San Francisco, CA | 1986-Dec-10

Initial Notification: On December 10, 1986, the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Office, Alameda, was notified by the San Francisco and Benicia Fire Departments that the 800-foot tank vessel PHILADELPHIA, owned by the EXXON Corporation and en route to Seattle, was scheduled to arrive at Anchorage 9 in San Francisco Bay on December 11, 1986. A fire and explosion had occurred in the paint locker aboard the vessel, where there was a 55-gallon drum, a 90-gallon container, and another storage tank of 2-butoxyethanol, 2-nitropropane, picric acid, kerosene with naphtha spirits. The paint locker was sealed after the fire was extinguished. Although the actual cause of the fire was still under investigation, the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office, Puget Sound, cleared the vessel to transit to San Francisco, where the repairs were scheduled. USCG district 11.