TAR BAY

Towing Vessel · Built 1970s · USCG East District (CGD-E)

TAR BAY is a 1979 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 12 inspections since 1993, most recently in March 2014, along with 3 casualty investigations between 2008 and 2009.

Records from 1993 to 2014. Most recent: inspection, 11 March 2014.

Built: 1979
Last inspected: 11 March 2014
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 12
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 3 investigations · 2008–2009
Inspected with: 7 other vessels

Identity

603455

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WDB6801

168188

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

366930690 (licence lapsed)

Maury page id

psix-168188

Inspections, by type

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded11

Years with a record 7 calendar years (1993–2014)

The 12 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 12 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 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 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.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it87 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
59 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 September 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.

Radio station licence

WDB6801MMSI 366930690 · expired · compulsorily equipped · granted 10 March 2004, cancelled 10 May 2014

FCC Universal Licensing System ship-station file of 6 September 2026, matched to this hull on its US Official Number. Status and dates are the file’s own. The licensee is not read from the file and is not shown. A lapsed licence’s MMSI is still the number the vessel transmitted under while it was valid.

Inspected as a tow unit · 7

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.

JACQUELINE A Towing Vessel · MISLE 199621 · 12 January 2009 · activity 3393179 SL 118 Freight Barge · MISLE 243935 · 12 January 2009 · activity 3393179 SL-119 Freight Barge · MISLE 243938 · 12 January 2009 · activity 3393179 HONEYWELL A-5-8 Freight Barge · MISLE 968022 · 14 May 2008 · activity 3219157 EILEEN MCALLISTER Towing Vessel · MISLE 147674 · 4 May 2008 · activity 3199304 AS-8 Freight Barge · MISLE 165227 · 4 May 2008 · activity 3199304 OLD DOMINION Unclassified · MISLE 380951 · 18 March 1997 · activity 89109 OLD DOMINION Unclassified · MISLE 380951 · 7 December 1996 · activity 88234 OLD DOMINION Unclassified · MISLE 380951 · 6 December 1996 · activity 109949

Inspection history · 12

11 March 2014 Administration

Administrative · USCG East District (dp) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 4813816

12 January 2009 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 3393179

14 May 2008 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 3219157

4 May 2008 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 3199304

18 March 1997 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO WILMINGTON · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 89109

17 December 1996 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HAMPTON ROADS · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 655201

7 December 1996 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HAMPTON ROADS · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 88234

6 December 1996 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HAMPTON ROADS · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 109949

6 December 1996 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HAMPTON ROADS · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 212910

13 September 1994 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Maryland-National Capital Region · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 655202

9 May 1994 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Maryland-National Capital Region · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 130227

25 January 1993 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO JACKSONVILLE · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 124206

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 · 3

4 May 2008Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3199304

14 May 2008Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · at NORFOLK SOUTHERN R/R BRIDGE 5 · activity 3219157

12 January 2009Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) · activity 3393179

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, and the bridge, lock or dam the investigation names where it names one. 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.