MAURY USCG vessel records
← All vessels

SPORTSTER

Towing Vessel · Built 1970s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

SPORTSTER is a 1973 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 15 inspections since 2002, most recently in January 2021, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2005.

Records from 2002 to 2021. Most recent: inspection, 27 January 2021.

Built
1973
Last inspected
27 January 2021
Documentation
Expired · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections
15
Deficiencies
0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls
None recorded without a removal date
Casualties
1 investigation · 2005
Inspected with
2 other vessels
Also recorded as
1 other name

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 5 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 23 August 2026, retrieved 5 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.

Inspection record

Last inspected 27 January 2021
Recorded inspections15
…physical examinations3
…administrative events4
…with no type recorded8
Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Operational controls None recorded without a removal date
Years with a record 6 calendar years (2002–2021)
Every line above is a count of records the US Coast Guard wrote, or a date it recorded. A blank resolution means none was recorded in this data; it does not establish that a deficiency is outstanding. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Identity

US Official No.
553405
IMO number
—
Call sign
WDE3359
MISLE id
125479
Flag
UNITED STATES
Maury page id
psix-125479

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)52.0 ft × 20.1 ft × 7.3 ft
Registered tonnagegross 68 / net 46
ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded
ITC tonnageNot recorded
BuilderCOASTAL IRON WORKS, INC. · CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, UNITED STATES · built 1973
Hull materialSteel
PropulsionDiesel Reduction
Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED
Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED
Hailing portLOCKPORT, LA
Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted
DocumentationExpired · issued 30 June 2004
Service, as the file records itTowing Vessel
Hull formpowered (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)
Tonnage as PSIX records it46 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
68 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 August 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.
Vessel history report
Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

Every recorded inspection, 1980 to 2026 for this class, in one chronology · every deficiency, with system, dates and resolution · operational controls imposed and removed · every name this hull has been recorded under · the vessels it was inspected alongside, and when · how its record compares with hulls of similar age and size, as a fact about the population and never a judgement about this vessel.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

This report is in development and is not for sale yet. There is no date, and nothing is charged. Leave an email and we will tell you when it exists, once.

Inspected as a tow unit · 2

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.

WIP 4 Towing Vessel · MISLE 88850 · 22 January 2005 · activity 2280435MISS ELLE Towing Vessel · MISLE 205829 · 22 January 2005 · activity 2280435

Inspection history · 15

27 January 2021 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7131690
16 May 2014 MARPOL · Industry Initiated Exam
Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4862376
6 September 2005 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2485329
19 August 2005 Security Plan Amendment Review - ASP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2467825
10 February 2005 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Dauphin Island · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2290427
22 January 2005 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2280435
1 October 2004 Deficiency Check
Physical examination · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2210855
2 September 2004 MTSA Verification
Physical examination · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2184386
5 January 2004 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1980492
22 December 2003 Security Plan Review - ASP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1968374
27 February 2003 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Dauphin Island · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1750380
21 January 2003 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Gulfport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1733471
27 December 2002 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Pascagoula · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1723278
3 November 2002 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Pascagoula · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1700371
10 September 2002 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Pascagoula · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1673952

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 · 1

22 January 2005Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 dead · activity 2280435
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. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR, through 2026.

Recorded names · 1

TISHOMINGO (2005). Names as the Coast Guard recorded them in incident records, with the years they appear; some are renames and some are spelling variants.

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.