BRIGHT STAR

Towing Vessel · Built 1980s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

BRIGHT STAR is a 1981 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 21 inspections since 1992, most recently in August 2021, along with 1 deficiency and 3 casualty investigations between 2005 and 2019.

Records from 1992 to 2021. Most recent: inspection, 12 August 2021.

Built: 1981
Last inspected: 12 August 2021
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 21
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 3 investigations · 2005–2019
Inspected with: 7 other vessels
Also recorded as: 1 other name

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 5 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 12 August 2021

Recorded inspections21

…physical examinations4

…administrative events3

…with no type recorded14

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 16 calendar years (1992–2021)

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

639924

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WAG6867

200998

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-200998

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it92 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
62 - 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 · 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.

SCOTT QUEST Towing Vessel · MISLE 126470 · 14 February 2019 · activity 6629705 MTC 6641B Freight Barge · MISLE 814596 · 14 February 2019 · activity 6629705 IN005482 Freight Barge · MISLE 5940 · 28 January 2008 · activity 3144299 ING 2215 Freight Barge · MISLE 438279 · 28 January 2008 · activity 3144299 IB 9102 Tank Barge · MISLE 43001 · 11 December 2005 · activity 2550210 TTI 30 Tank Barge · MISLE 41316 · 7 February 2000 · activity 7922 IB9513 Tank Barge · MISLE 47887 · 7 April 1999 · activity 23731

Inspection history · 21

12 August 2021 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7284776

14 February 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6629705

7 November 2018 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6576173

5 August 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC PELICAN (WPB 87327) · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5967140

12 March 2013 Industry Initiated Exam · DAPI Audit · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4549687

11 June 2012 Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA Verification · DAPI Audit

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4340562

28 January 2008 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3144299

20 October 2007 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC SEAHAWK (WPB 87323) · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 3084444

12 December 2006 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2838758

6 October 2006 MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2794979

11 December 2005 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2550210

29 June 2005 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Dauphin Island · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2409694

19 May 2004 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2077953

18 December 2003 Security Plan Review - ASP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1970988

25 March 2003 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1763260

10 March 2003 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Dauphin Island · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1754922

7 February 2000 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7922

7 April 1999 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 23731

7 August 1996 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 35545

14 September 1992 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 669541

3 May 1992 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 86954

Deficiency record · 1

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

Issued 12 August 2021 Resolved

An existing towing vessel subject to this subchapter will remain subject to Coast Guard regulations applicable to the vessel July 19, 2016 until either July 20, 2018 or the date the vessel obtains a COI, whichever date is earlier. Vessel is not in compliance with Subchapter M. Vessel is prohibited from movement unless authorized in writing by cognizant OCMI. 46 CFR 136.172

Action required: 60 - Rectify deficiencies prior to movement
Resolved 3 November 2021
Resolution: Laid up

Casualty record · 3

11 December 2005Significant Marine Casualty · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 2 dead · activity 2550210

28 January 2008Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) · activity 3144299

14 February 2019Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 6629705

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

SCAT (2005–2008). 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.