RUSS MOBLEY

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

RUSS MOBLEY is a 1975 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 27 inspections since 1992, most recently in November 2025, along with 2 deficiencies and 4 casualty investigations between 2005 and 2025.

Records from 1992 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 20 November 2025.

Built: 1975
Last inspected: 20 November 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 27
Deficiencies: 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 4 investigations · 2005–2025
Inspected with: 8 other vessels

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 20 November 2025

Recorded inspections27

…physical examinations9

…administrative events8

…with no type recorded10

Deficiencies 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 18 calendar years (1992–2025)

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

567965

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WDI5477

137315

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-137315

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it88 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
18 - 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.

RIVER VIKING Towing Vessel · MISLE 212800 · 14 February 2025 · activity 8080719 CC 95111 Freight Barge · MISLE 501613 · 14 February 2025 · activity 8080719 MARY ROSE Towing Vessel · MISLE 240075 · 28 January 2022 · activity 7388976 JAMES E. ANDERSON Towing Vessel · MISLE 88899 · 19 March 2009 · activity 3438346 CBC 34 Tank Barge · MISLE 729620 · 19 March 2009 · activity 3438346 EBS 4 Tank Barge · MISLE 48441 · 21 October 2005 · activity 2519445 OLIVER C. SHEARER Towing Vessel · MISLE 78052 · 2 April 2002 · activity 1599959 MEM 5221 Freight Barge · MISLE 478097 · 2 April 2002 · activity 1599959

Inspection history · 27

20 November 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8271617

14 February 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8080719

3 October 2024 TPO Audit

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8024347

1 February 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7388970

28 January 2022 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7387448

28 January 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7388976

11 February 2021 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7139410

17 November 2020 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7109062

27 October 2020 MTSA/ISPS Verification · Initial Certification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7084766

16 November 2019 TPO Audit

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6857395

22 July 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6791274

30 October 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6301531

15 July 2011 Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4096873

21 June 2010 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3774345

14 May 2010 Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA/ISPS Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3737827

19 March 2009 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3438346

20 February 2008 DAPI Audit

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3195158

27 June 2007 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2984491

19 April 2007 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2932036

21 October 2005 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2519445

18 November 2004 MTSA Verification

Physical examination · MSO Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2243103

20 November 2003 Security Plan Review - VSP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1951705

2 September 2003 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1895825

2 April 2002 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1599959

2 November 2000 Uninspected Towing Vessel

Physical examination · MSO Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1055266

21 July 2000 Uninspected Towing Vessel

Physical examination · MSO Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 821306

10 February 1992 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 671684

Deficiency record · 2

13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (machinery)

Issued 28 January 2022 Resolved

Machinery and electrical systems must be designed and maintained to provide for safe operation of the towing vessel and safety of persons onboard under normal and emergency conditions. Port side propulsion inoperable.

Condition: Damaged By Earlier Event
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 11 February 2022
Resolution: Corrected to the satisfaction of the TPO.

01 - Certificates & Documentation › 011 - Ships Certificates › Other (certificates)

Issued 24 November 2020 Resolved

All owners and operators of more than one existing towing vessel required to have a COI by this subchapter must ensure that each towing vessel under their ownership or control is issued a valid COI. This vessel makes up one of the 50% of the vessels under the o/o ownership or control and has not obtained a valid COI.

Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 17 February 2021
Resolved 1 February 2021

Casualty record · 4

21 October 2005Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2519445

19 March 2009Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3438346

28 January 2022Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7388976

14 February 2025Routine · role: Sighted in Area · activity 8080719

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.

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.