BROWN WATER IV

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

BROWN WATER IV is a 1978 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 9 inspections since 1995, most recently in September 2009, along with 4 deficiencies.

Records from 1995 to 2009. Most recent: inspection, 8 September 2009.

Built: 1978
Last inspected: 8 September 2009
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 9
Deficiencies: 4 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Inspected with: 4 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 17 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 8 September 2009

Recorded inspections9

…physical examinations1

…administrative events3

…with no type recorded5

Deficiencies 4 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 7 calendar years (1995–2009)

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

596212

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WDC3503

161761

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-161761

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it33 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
49 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), 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 · 4

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.

M-968 Freight Barge · MISLE 404013 · 30 October 1999 · activity 10910 LASM-46 Tank Barge · MISLE 50785 · 10 May 1997 · activity 53752 BELLE Towing Vessel · MISLE 101899 · 10 May 1997 · activity 53752 KIRBY 10307 Tank Barge · MISLE 46147 · 11 June 1995 · activity 106905

Inspection history · 9

8 September 2009 Administration

Administrative · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3589283

18 July 2006 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2717118

22 December 2003 Security Plan Review - ASP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1970620

30 October 1999 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 10910

26 July 1999 Uninspected Towing Vessel

Physical examination · MSO Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 774589

10 May 1997 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 53752

10 May 1997 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 214579

30 September 1996 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO PORT ARTHUR · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 395962

11 June 1995 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Victoria · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 106905

Deficiency record · 4

Lifesaving

Issued 30 September 1996 Resolved

RING BUOY IN INSERVICABLE CONDITION DUE TWO WEATHERING. 46CFR25.25-5(d)

Condition: Unknown
Due 29 October 1996
Resolved 29 October 1996

Documentation

Issued 30 September 1996 Resolved

OFFICIAL NUMBER NOT PERMANENTLY MARKED ON INTERIOR STRUCTURAL PART OF VESSELS HULL. 46CFR67.121

Condition: Unknown
Due 29 October 1996
Resolved 29 October 1996

Deck/Cargo

Issued 30 September 1996 Resolved

VESSEL DID NOT HAVE OIL PLACARD ON BOARD. 33CFR151.59

Condition: Unknown
Due 29 October 1996
Resolved 29 October 1996

Fire Fighting

Issued 30 September 1996 Resolved

ALL PORTABLE FIRE EXTINGUISHERS THREE YEARS PAST TEST DATE. 46CFR25.30-20

Condition: Unknown
Due 29 October 1996
Resolved 29 October 1996

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.