BISMARCK SEA

Towing Vessel · Built 1970s · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A)

BISMARCK SEA is a 1976 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 36 inspections since 1994, most recently in January 2017, along with 9 casualty investigations between 2002 and 2016.

Records from 1994 to 2017. Most recent: inspection, 25 January 2017.

Built: 1976
Last inspected: 25 January 2017
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 36
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 9 investigations · 2002–2016
Inspected with: 5 other vessels
Also recorded as: 1 other name

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 9 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 25 January 2017

Recorded inspections36

…physical examinations11

…administrative events9

…with no type recorded16

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 17 calendar years (1994–2017)

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

571812

7512052

WDE5016

140493

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-140493

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it131 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
181 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
193 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
606 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross 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 · 5

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 · 36

25 January 2017 Bulk Liquid Transfer Monitor

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Valdez · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 6077373

16 August 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Valdez · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 5982467

31 March 2016 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 5844838

28 April 2015 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Valdez · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 5114460

1 November 2014 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Kodiak · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 5033085

19 October 2014 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Valdez · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 5007957

27 January 2014 Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 4787462

4 July 2012 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 4368276

9 May 2012 Administration

Administrative · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 4780346

24 April 2012 MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Valdez · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 4294548

17 February 2012 Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Valdez · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 4246626

3 September 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 4138688

9 August 2011 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Kodiak · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 4166123

7 August 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Kodiak · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 4144670

6 July 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 4079323

5 May 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Valdez · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 4016283

9 October 2010 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 3868359

21 June 2010 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic · USCG Arctic District (CGD-A) · Activity 3915383

18 March 2010 Administration

Administrative · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 3702541

2 October 2008 MTSA/ISPS Verification

Physical examination · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 3337070

21 May 2007 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 2937364

10 November 2006 Security Plan Amendment Review - VSP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2818385

26 September 2006 MTSA/ISPS Verification · Uninspected Other

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 2738433

13 April 2006 Security Plan Review - VSP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2624050

30 November 2005 Security Plan Amendment Review - ASP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2543219

23 November 2005 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2539851

22 October 2004 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2227733

22 October 2004 Annual Inspection · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2318886

28 April 2004 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Grand Isle · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2068009

29 December 2003 Security Plan Review - VSP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1971474

14 May 2002 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1644700

8 May 2002 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC KEY BISCAYNE (WPB 1339) · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 1616069

17 September 1997 Uninspected Towing Vessel

Physical examination · MSO JACKSONVILLE · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 774721

29 April 1997 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO JACKSONVILLE · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 532625

18 July 1995 MARPOL Annex I Examination · Uninspected Towing Vessel · MARPOL Annex V Examination

Physical examination · MSO JACKSONVILLE · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 872763

26 December 1994 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO JACKSONVILLE · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 43017

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 · 9

14 May 2002Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 1644700

21 June 2010Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3915383

9 October 2010Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 3868359

6 July 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4079323

7 August 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4144670

3 September 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4138688

4 July 2012Routine · role: Moored/Anchored in Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 4368276

1 November 2014Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 5033085

16 August 2016Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 5982467

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

GULF RULER (2002). 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.