The Mazapeta<\/em> was a Navy yard tug built in 1942-43 at a shipyard in Florida. She was in naval service until 1976, serving at a variety of ports and bases, and then went to work with a commercial towing company in San Francisco until 1998. For at least the last seven years, she sat at a berth in Little Potato Slough, a meandering backwater off the San Joaquin River. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n In September 2023, after a long period sitting idle, Mazapeta<\/em> sank in the slough with 1,600 gallons of fuel and oil on board. State and federal agencies have had a hard time finding the tug's owner, according to local media, so the Coast Guard has taken over the process of defueling and raising the vessel. <\/p>\n The pollution-abatement operation was completed Wednesday. Over the course of the salvage project, about 600 gallons of petroleum and 26,000 gallons of oily water mixture were recovered, according to the agency. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Images courtesy USCG<\/em><\/p>\n Commercial contractor Parker Diving and Salvage raised the Mazapeta<\/em> using a crane barge and dewatering pumps over the course of last weekend. The response crew sealed, dewatered and defueled the vessel, and removed hazardous-waste items like batteries.<\/p>\n Now that the raising and pollution-abatement operations are completed, the City of Stockton has taken control of the wreck. The city planned to move the vessel this week to Vallejo, and it may be Mazapeta's<\/em> last destination: according to the Coast Guard, she is headed for "final disposal." <\/p>\n maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The U.S. Coast Guard and a team of commercial salvors have raised and defueled an abandoned tug from the bottom of the San Joaquin Delta, northwest of Stockton, California. The area has been a resting place for older vessels for years, and this one – the WWII-era tug Mazapeta – sank at its mooring and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[17516,8486,17515,1089,8895,568,2521],"class_list":["post-37893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-ampquotdisposalampquot","tag-headed","tag-mazapeta","tag-navy","tag-sunken","tag-tug","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/37894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/file\/2024\/01\/1705799458_568_Sunken-WWII-Navy-Tug-Headed-for-ampquotDisposalampquot.jpg\")
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