TOM BUSSLER

Towing Vessel · Built 1960s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

TOM BUSSLER is a 1969 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 16 inspections since 2004, most recently in June 2020, along with 7 casualty investigations between 2011 and 2019.

Records from 2004 to 2020. Most recent: inspection, 23 June 2020.

Built: 1969
Last inspected: 23 June 2020
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 16
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 7 investigations · 2011–2019
Inspected with: 28 other vessels

Identity

522756

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WDI5605

102255

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

366975270, 367710310 (licence lapsed)

Maury page id

psix-102255

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations3

…administrative events3

…with no type recorded10

Years with a record 9 calendar years (2004–2020)

The 16 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 6 years ago. Maury shows what the Coast Guard recorded, not whether the vessel has been inspected since, is still in service, or what condition it is in. Coast Guard record current through 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 September 2026 from PSIX. Every field on this page was recorded by the Coast Guard. Records for the Towing Vessel class in Maury's sources begin in 1980.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it75 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
51 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 September 2026 as served by NOAA Fisheries, so no documentation record is shown. Absence from that file is a fact about the file, not about the hull.

Radio station licence

WDI5605MMSI 367710310 · expired · compulsorily equipped · granted 12 January 2016, cancelled 14 March 2026

WY7969MMSI 366975270 · cancelled · compulsorily equipped · granted 31 August 2004, cancelled 8 March 2006 · licensed under a name not among this hull’s recorded names (not shown)

FCC Universal Licensing System ship-station file of 6 September 2026, matched to this hull on its US Official Number. Status and dates are the file’s own. The licensee is not read from the file and is not shown. A lapsed licence’s MMSI is still the number the vessel transmitted under while it was valid.

Inspected as a tow unit · 28

The Coast Guard recorded this vessel and the following in the same inspection activity — normally a tug and the barges in its tow. A recreational or unclassed hull in the same activity is held and not published, so it does not appear here: these lists are a floor, not a complete manifest.

Inspection history · 16

23 June 2020 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6984870

8 January 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6606973

8 January 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6610951

22 April 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6398710

30 November 2015 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5772899

8 October 2015 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5738461

12 February 2015 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5071678

14 November 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4192760

13 September 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4154676

13 September 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4154727

3 January 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3925377

3 September 2010 Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3841146

26 January 2009 Administration

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3400395

6 November 2006 Uninspected Other · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2815433

24 May 2006 Security Plan Amendment Review - ASP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2657476

18 October 2004 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Cincinnati · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2223298

Deficiency record · 0

No deficiencies recorded against this vessel. This means none were written in the records covered — it is not a statement about the vessel's condition. What a recorded resolution is.

Casualty record · 7

3 January 2011Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 3925377

13 September 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4154676

13 September 2011Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 4154727

8 October 2015Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 5738461

22 April 2018Routine · role: Acknowledged Pollution Source · activity 6398710

8 January 2019Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6606973

8 January 2019Routine · role: Reported in distress · activity 6610951

Each line is an incident investigation the Coast Guard recorded with this hull among the vessels involved, with the date and the classification the Coast Guard gave it, and the bridge, lock or dam the investigation names where it names one. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR, through 2026.

Ownership record

The Coast Guard's documentation record for this hull -- the Abstract of Title, with its owners and liens as filed -- is not in PSIX. Ask, and Maury buys it from the National Vessel Documentation Center, files it here with its date, and every reader of this page gets it.