Pacific Responder

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Marine Spill Response Corp. (MSRC) crew members aboard Pacific Responder during the “Safe Seas 2006 Oil Spill Response Exercise”. 9 August 2006.
History
Name:Pacific Responder
Owner:
Port of registry:Flag of the United States.svg  United States, Norfolk, Virginia
Builder: VT Halter Marine, Inc. (formerly Moss Point Marine, Inc., Escatawpa, Mississippi
Completed: 1992
Acquired: 01 January 1993
Identification:
Status: Operational
Notes: [1] [2]
General characteristics
Class and type: ABS A1, Oil Recovery Vessel Class 1, AMS
Tonnage:
Length: 63 m (207 ft)
Beam: 13 m (43 ft)
Depth: 5 m (16 ft)
Deck clearance: 7.33 m (24.0 ft)
Installed power:
Capacity:
Notes: [1] [2]

Pacific Responder is a Responder-class oil-skimming vessel registered in Norfolk, Virginia and based in San Francisco, California.

Norfolk, Virginia Independent city in Virginia, United States

Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 242,803; in 2017, the population was estimated to be 244,703 making it the second-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Beach.

San Francisco Consolidated city-county in California, US

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a city in, and the cultural, commercial, and financial center of, Northern California. San Francisco is the 13th-most populous city in the United States, and the fourth-most populous in California, with 883,305 residents as of 2018. It covers an area of about 46.89 square miles (121.4 km2), mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, making it the second-most densely populated large US city, and the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. San Francisco is also part of the fifth-most populous primary statistical area in the United States, the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area.

California State of the United States of America

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Pacific Responder and her sister ship, California Responder , operated off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The vessels sailed to the gulf from their home ports in California to assist in the containment efforts. [3]

Sister ship

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California Responder is a Responder-class oil-skimming vessel registered in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, and based in Port Hueneme, California. California Responder and her sister ship, Pacific Responder, operated off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The vessels sailed to the gulf from their home ports in California to assist in the containment efforts.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Coast Guard Vessel Documentation: Pacific Responder". United States Coast Guard. December 31, 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  2. 1 2 "ABS Record: Pacific Responder". American Bureau of Shipping. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
  3. Frederic J. Frommer (July 13, 2010). "Obama Administration Hopes New Drilling Ban Can Survive". The Thibodaux Daily Comet. Retrieved 3 August 2010.