(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - While moored in the harbor of Cordova, a section of the Coast Guard Cutter Sycamore’s port bow sustained damage from an allision with an Alaska Marine Lines barge Sunday.

A section of the Coast Guard Cutter Sycamore’s port bow sustained damage from an allision with an Alaska Marine Lines barge while moored in the harbor of Cordova, on July 28, 2013.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Coast Guard Cutter Sycamore

The Sycamore, a 225-foot seagoing buoy tender, was at its moorings when the allision occurred. The incident is under investigation by the Coast Guard.

Allision is a term used in maritime law for the running of one vessel against another. It is distinguished from a collision which is the running of two vessels against each other.

The Sycamore, homeported in Cordova, conducts aids to navigation, search and rescue and law enforcement missions throughout Alaska.

There have been no reports of injuries or pollution at this time.

Edited by Mary Kauffman, SitNews

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