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TLC EXPLORER

Towing Vessel · Built 1970s · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW)

TLC EXPLORER is a 1974 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 24 inspections since 1992, most recently in July 2022, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2008.

Records from 1992 to 2022. Most recent: inspection, 29 July 2022.

Built
1974
Last inspected
29 July 2022
Documentation
Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections
24
Deficiencies
0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls
None recorded without a removal date
Casualties
1 investigation · 2008
Inspected with
8 other vessels
Also recorded as
1 other name

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 4 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 29 July 2022
Recorded inspections24
…physical examinations3
…administrative events2
…with no type recorded19
Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Operational controls None recorded without a removal date
Years with a record 14 calendar years (1992–2022)
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.
556958
IMO number
—
Call sign
WDD2040
MISLE id
128354
Flag
UNITED STATES
Maury page id
psix-128354

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it50 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
34 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 August 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.
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.

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Inspected as a tow unit · 8

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.

NORMANDY Towing Vessel · MISLE 881562 · 21 September 2008 · activity 3329564MB-3 Tank Barge · MISLE 44311 · 10 July 1998 · activity 127916MB-3 Tank Barge · MISLE 44311 · 10 July 1998 · activity 164161WCAO-3002 Tank Barge · MISLE 44722 · 25 December 1996 · activity 87204WCAO-3004 Tank Barge · MISLE 46070 · 25 December 1996 · activity 87204FRANK THACKSTON Towing Vessel · MISLE 202450 · 25 December 1996 · activity 87204DC 435 Tank Barge · MISLE 50829 · 13 October 1995 · activity 99290KIRBY 11505 Tank Barge · MISLE 346745 · 29 September 1994 · activity 9879KIRBY 10323 Tank Barge · MISLE 46673 · 14 August 1994 · activity 106975

Inspection history · 24

29 July 2022 Bulk Liquid Transfer Monitor
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Portland OR · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7534578
17 December 2012 Spot Check (Safety)
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4503389
11 March 2011 Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA Verification · DAPI Audit
Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3968717
21 September 2008 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3329564
27 August 2008 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3310785
31 July 2008 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3285155
9 June 2008 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3285044
6 September 2006 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2770972
18 August 2006 Security Plan Review - VSP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2752037
9 August 2006 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2761917
27 May 2005 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO HOUSTON/GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2369850
24 December 2003 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1996175
5 July 2000 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO HOUSTON/GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 98654
5 July 1999 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 119695
10 July 1998 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO HOUSTON/GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 127916
10 July 1998 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO HOUSTON/GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 164161
7 April 1998 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO HOUSTON/GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 108557
25 December 1996 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 87204
13 October 1995 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 99290
1 October 1995 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 54455
29 September 1994 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 9879
14 August 1994 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 106975
18 November 1992 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 661970
10 November 1992 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 46235

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

21 September 2008Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3329564
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

RON W (2008). 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.