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ARKANSAS
ARKANSAS is a 1909 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 18 inspections since 1986, most recently in April 2025, along with 1 operational control and 3 casualty investigations between 2014 and 2025.
Records from 1986 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 7 April 2025.
- Built
- 1909
- Last inspected
- 7 April 2025
- Documentation
- Valid · documentation file of 10 September 2026
- Deficiencies
- 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
- Controls
- None recorded without a removal date
- Casualties
- 3 investigations · 2014–2025
Identity
206972
WH8588
55922
Flag
UNITED STATES
366980890 (licence lapsed)
Maury page id
psix-55922
Inspections, by type
…with no type recorded7
Years with a record
11 calendar years (1986–2025)
The 18 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.
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
Registered dimensions (L × B × D)74.8 ft × 19.9 ft × 11.6 ft
Registered tonnagegross 97 / net 66
ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded
ITC tonnageNot recorded
BuilderTHE GREAT LAKES TOWING CO · CLEVELAND, OH, UNITED STATES · built 1909
Hull materialSteel
PropulsionDiesel Reduction
Hull shapeNot recorded
Hull configurationNot recorded
Hailing portWILMINGTON, DE
Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry
DocumentationValid · issued 2 July 2026 · expires 31 August 2027
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 it97 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
66 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
66 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 September 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.
Radio station licence
WH8588MMSI 366980890 · expired · compulsorily equipped · granted 26 November 2014, cancelled 1 February 2025
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 · 1
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.
OKLAHOMA Towing Vessel · MISLE 56202 · 17 April 2014 · activity 4838302Inspection history · 18
7 April 2025
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Eastern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 8106528
1 February 2025
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Eastern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 8078198
7 August 2021
Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Duluth · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 7282359
26 May 2020
Initial Certification
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Cleveland · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6960849
18 February 2016
Liferaft Servicing
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Cleveland · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 5817580
8 January 2016
Administration
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Chicago · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 5793532
16 July 2015
Deficiency Check
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Duluth · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 5186464
22 June 2015
Industry Initiated Exam
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Duluth · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 5161366
10 July 2014
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Northern Great Lakes · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 4917741
17 April 2014
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Lake Michigan · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 4838302
27 September 2013
Industry Initiated Exam
Physical examination · Sector Lake Michigan · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 4726548
23 August 2013
Deficiency Check · Administration
Physical examination · Sector Lake Michigan · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 4694548
5 September 2012
Deficiency Check
Physical examination · Sector Lake Michigan · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 4433111
27 June 2012
Industry Initiated Exam
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Chicago · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 4359432
30 December 2005
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Lake Michigan · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 2615772
27 March 1996
Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO CHICAGO · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 667095
25 February 1996
Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO CHICAGO · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 62584
29 April 1986
Uninspected Towing Vessel
Physical examination · MSO DULUTH · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 1001076
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
17 April 2014Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) · at I-794 HOAN BRIDGE · activity 4838302
1 February 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8078198
7 April 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8106528
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.