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HONEY BEAR

Towing Vessel · Built 1950s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

HONEY BEAR is a 1951 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 17 inspections since 1993, most recently in April 2002, along with 4 deficiencies and 1 casualty investigation in 2002.

Records from 1993 to 2002. Most recent: inspection, 22 April 2002.

Built
1951
Last inspected
22 April 2002
Documentation
Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections
17
Deficiencies
4 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls
None recorded without a removal date
Casualties
1 investigation · 2002
Inspected with
2 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 24 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 22 April 2002
Recorded inspections17
…administrative events1
…with no type recorded16
Deficiencies 4 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Operational controls None recorded without a removal date
Years with a record 6 calendar years (1993–2002)
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

US Official No.
262491
IMO number
7436193
Call sign
WD8041
MISLE id
68048
Flag
UNITED STATES
Maury page id
psix-68048

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it181 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
123 - 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 · 2

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/G R 5406 Freight Barge · MISLE 388798 · 10 April 2001 · activity 147592MRT 58 Tank Barge · MISLE 44766 · 18 January 2000 · activity 11008

Inspection history · 17

22 April 2002 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1607661
11 April 2001 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 289039
11 April 2001 Administrative
Administrative · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1062435
10 April 2001 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 147592
28 September 2000 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 730232
7 June 2000 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 769253
24 May 2000 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 210874
18 January 2000 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 11008
16 December 1999 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1511236
4 November 1999 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 770454
14 October 1999 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 210875
14 February 1999 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 100578
22 January 1999 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 424867
14 January 1999 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO HOUSTON/GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 18779
22 March 1994 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 689988
21 March 1994 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 114285
10 November 1993 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 93387

Deficiency record · 4

Fire Fighting
Issued 22 January 1999 Resolved
Fire extinguishers are out of service dates.
Condition: Unknown
Due 11 April 2001
Resolved 11 April 2001
Navigation
Issued 22 January 1999 Resolved
Vessel does not have a bell onboard for sound signaling.
Condition: Unknown
Due 11 April 2001
Resolved 11 April 2001
Lifesaving
Issued 22 January 1999 Resolved
Type I PFD.s unservicable and in inadequate numbers.
Condition: Unknown
Due 11 April 2001
Resolved 11 April 2001
Construction/Loadline
Issued 22 January 1999 Resolved
Watertight door on main deck, portside, amidship is bent and cannot be closed.
Condition: Unknown
Due 11 April 2001
Resolved 11 April 2001

Casualty record · 1

22 April 2002Significant Marine Casualty · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 1607661
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.

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.