OLIVER B

Towing Vessel · Built 1950s · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW)

OLIVER B is a 1954 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 7 inspections since 2004, most recently in November 2025, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2004.

Records from 2004 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 20 November 2025.

Built: 1954
Last inspected: 20 November 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 7
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2004
Inspected with: 1 other vessel

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 20 November 2025

Recorded inspections7

…administrative events4

…with no type recorded3

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2004–2025)

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

268604

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WF8782

70604

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-70604

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)38.3 ft × 14.0 ft × 5.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 19 / net 13

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderGUNDERSON BROS ENG CORP · PORTLAND OR, UNITED STATES · built 1954

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portSEATTLE, WA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 15 October 2025 · expires 30 November 2026

Service, as the file records itTowing Vessel

Hull formunknown (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it13 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
19 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross 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 · 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.

CEC 106 Freight Barge · MISLE 69166 · 19 January 2006 · activity 2569679 CEC 106 Freight Barge · MISLE 69166 · 19 January 2006 · activity 2569683 CEC 106 Freight Barge · MISLE 69166 · 24 March 2004 · activity 2031076

Inspection history · 7

20 November 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Columbia River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 8271903

5 November 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Columbia River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 8022539

24 July 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Columbia River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7750963

26 May 2021 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Portland OR · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7207462

19 January 2006 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 2569679

19 January 2006 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 2569683

24 March 2004 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO SAN FRANCISCO BAY · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 2031076

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 · 1

24 March 2004Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2031076

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.