Bridge · from the US Coast Guard investigation record

BAYOU SORREL FLOATING BRIDGE

The vessels recorded in 8 Coast Guard casualty investigations naming this bridge, 2006–2009: 17 vessel mentions, 17 hulls with a page on Maury.

Every investigation naming this structure

Vessel, with role as recorded	Date	Classification	Structure status, as recorded	Property damage recorded	People
CHEM 1300 Involved in a Marine Casualty CHEM 153 Involved in a Marine Casualty MISS ROSLYN Involved in a Marine Casualty	2009-11-08	Routine	Damaged and Not Repaired - Operational	$25,000	none recorded
POSEIDON Involved in a Marine Casualty USL 136 Involved in a Marine Casualty	2009-06-03	Routine	Damaged and Repaired - Operational	$40,000	none recorded
MEM 1009 Involved in a Marine Casualty SUSAN FRANCES Involved in a Marine Casualty	2008-09-14	Routine · serious marine incident	Damaged and Repaired - Operational	$151,300	none recorded
RAY ECKSTEIN Involved in a Marine Casualty	2007-12-30	Routine	Damaged and Repaired - Operational	$5,200	none recorded
SUE ELLEN Involved in a Marine Casualty	2007-11-26	Routine	Damaged and Repaired - Operational	—	none recorded
CBC 184 Involved in a Marine Casualty CBC 60 Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) CBC 72 Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) CBC 90 Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) ELIZABETH HUGER Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty)	2007-10-22	Routine	Undamaged - Operational	—	none recorded
ABC 414B Involved in a Marine Casualty DORIS MCKINNEY Involved in a Marine Casualty	2007-07-18	Routine	Damaged and Repaired - Operational	$9,060	none recorded
SIVI SHIRAH Involved in a Marine Casualty	2006-10-13	Routine	Damaged and Repaired - Operational	—	none recorded

A vessel’s role is the Coast Guard’s word for how it was involved, and it is shown exactly as recorded: a vessel “sighted near” an incident is not a striking vessel, and involvement is not fault. Where an investigation records anyone dead, injured or missing, only the structured fields are shown and the narrative is withheld. Property damage is the total the investigation recorded, in dollars of the year, never adjusted. Vessel names link to the hull’s page where Maury publishes one; an unlinked name is a hull Maury holds and does not publish, or one it does not hold.

Investigations recorded, by year

Year	Investigations recorded
2006	1
2007	4
2008	1
2009	2

A count of investigation records that name this structure. It is not a rate: the Coast Guard’s record of incidents is denser in some years and districts than others (coverage), and the record for 1991 onward is the one Maury holds.

Identity

Recorded as

BAYOU SORREL FLOATING BRIDGE

Also recorded as

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Type

Bridge

Coast Guard unit

USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge

Maury structure id

str-c39e20b864

One recorded name under one Coast Guard unit. A grouping by name may include more than one structure.

Federal bridge record

NBI structure number612402300309551 (LA)

Owner, as classed by FHWAState highway agency

Facility carriedLA0997

Feature crossedB PIGEON/LOWER GRAND R.

Location, as recorded0.01 Mi. W of LA 75

Year built1957

Navigation vertical clearance304.4 m (998.7 ft)

Navigation horizontal clearance37.1 m (121.7 ft)

Minimum navigation vertical clearancenot recorded in the inventory

National Bridge Inventory 2024, Federal Highway Administration, as served. Match: the only navigation-controlled NBI crossing within 2 km of the recorded position, 0.04 km from it. Owner is FHWA’s owner class, not a name.

What this page is not

A fact about a structure, not a judgement about it or about anyone who owns it. Maury publishes no score, rating or ranking for a structure, and no count or comparison for a bridge owner. A structure with no page has no recorded involvement in the ranges Maury holds; that is not “never struck”. Source: US Coast Guard Incident Investigation Reports through 13 September 2026; National Bridge Inventory where matched. Coverage and known gaps.