The Seabulk Pride, operated by Seabulk Tankers of Ft. Lauderdale,FL, was constructed in 1998 at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. She was built as part of a series of new double hulled tankers serving the domestic market.
The Seabulk Pride is a double-hulled oil tanker

Oil tanker

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a merchant ship designed for the bulk transport of oil. There are two basic types of oil tankers: the crude tanker and the product tanker. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries...

 which ran aground near the port of Nikiski, Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

 on February 2, 2006. The tanker had been moored at the Nikiski docks when she was struck by an ice floe which parted her mooring lines. The Seabulk Pride - and her cargo of 5 million gallons of oil - drifted northward up Cook Inlet

Cook Inlet

Cook Inlet stretches from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska. Cook Inlet branches into the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm at its northern end, almost surrounding Anchorage....

, where she ran aground. She was refloated the next day, February 3, 2006, with no significant oil release.

On January 9, 2007 the Seabulk Pride experienced difficulty at the same dock when extremely icy conditions once again pulled her from her mooring; however, she was able to depart for open water. Subsequent to these two incidents, a tug

Tug

Tuğ is a village in the Khojavend Rayon of Azerbaijan....

was assigned to assist vessels at the hazardous port, which has a high tidal range and fast current in addition to being subject to unpredictable heavy icing conditions.