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SARAH

SARAH is a 1996 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 17 inspections since 2001, most recently in December 2025, along with 5 casualty investigations between 2007 and 2025.

Records from 2001 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 24 December 2025.

Built
1996
Last inspected
24 December 2025
Documentation
Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Controls
None recorded without a removal date

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 24 December 2025
…with no type recorded8
Operational controls None recorded without a removal date
Years with a record 15 calendar years (2001–2025)
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

WDF2432
446703
Flag
UNITED STATES
Maury page id
psix-446703

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)76.4 ft × 27.5 ft × 10.7 ft
Registered tonnagegross 150 / net 120
ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded
ITC tonnageNot recorded
BuilderCENAC TOWING CO INC · HOUMA LA, UNITED STATES · built 1996
Hull materialSteel
PropulsionDiesel Reduction
Hull shapeShip
Hull configurationMonohull
Hailing portHOUMA, LA
Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry
DocumentationValid · issued 20 November 2025 · expires 31 December 2026
Service, as the file records itTowing Vessel
Hull formpowered (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)
Tonnage as PSIX records it150 - Simplified, Gross Ton
120 - Simplified, Net Ton
Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 August 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.
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 · 13

Inspection history · 17

24 December 2025 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8300649
27 November 2024 COI Inspection · MTSA Verification
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8040827
7 March 2022 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7407037
18 December 2019 Administrative Inspection · Initial Certification
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6876143
16 February 2018 MTSA Verification · Industry Initiated Exam
Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6356221
30 January 2015 Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA Verification
Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5061691
17 November 2014 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5092959
28 June 2013 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4677022
13 June 2012 Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA Verification
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4347623
5 June 2011 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Morgan City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4071584
12 August 2008 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3297579
12 August 2008 Annual Inspection · MTSA Verification
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3299262
19 November 2007 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3101183
19 May 2006 Uninspected Other · MTSA Verification
Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2653605
20 April 2006 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2629626
2 December 2003 Security Plan Review - ASP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1965720
19 November 2001 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1076843

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 · 5

19 November 2007Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 3101183
12 August 2008Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3297579
5 June 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4071584
28 June 2013Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4677022
24 December 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8300649
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

SARAH CENAC (2007–2008). 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.