Tugs safely hauled the 174-meter (575-foot) Seabulk Pride, a double-hulled tanker carrying 4.3 million gallons (16.5 million liters) of oil, off the silt bank where it came to rest after being ripped free of its moorings Thursday. "They have pulled it free and it's under its own power now," said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Coast Guard's information center in Alaska. "We got it afloat with the tug boats at about 8:25 am (1525 GMT) today and it is awaiting Coast Guard inspection to make sure it is sound," the official told AFP. "However, it does not appear that there is any major damage." The ship became untethered from its moorings when it was struck by fast-flowing ice as it was loading fuel at a dock in the port of Nikisi, about 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Alaska's largest city, Anchorage. The impact sent it drifting out of control about 800 meters (half a mile) into the Cook Inlet, a spot famed for its hunting and fishing, where it ran aground on a silt bank. "It's lucky as it came to rest in an area that wasn't at all rocky," the Coast Guard official told AFP. The ship, carrying 34 crew members and owned by Florida-based Seabulk International Inc., was laden with the equivalent of 16,500 tons (4.3 million gallons or 16.5 million liters) of oil and fuel. But the only spillage was around five barrels (210 gallons or 800 liters) of oil that leaked when the loading arm broke as the ship tore free, and three of the barrels were contained on the ship's deck, Coast Guard officials said. PIN/AFP