PRESTON JAMES

Towing Vessel · Built 1960s · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE)

PRESTON JAMES is a 1960 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 12 inspections since 2002, most recently in July 2022, along with 1 deficiency.

Records from 2002 to 2022. Most recent: inspection, 1 July 2022.

Built: 1960
Last inspected: 1 July 2022
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 12
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Inspected with: 3 other vessels

Identity

US Official No.

280540

IMO number

6400795 View on MarineTraffic leaves Maury; a third-party site, nothing from it is stored here

Call sign

WDD7527

MISLE id

76224

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

366374180, 367187640, 367611450 (licence lapsed)

Maury page id

psix-76224

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations4

…administrative events3

…with no type recorded5

Years with a record 7 calendar years (2002–2022)

The 12 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.

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 4 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 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

Tonnage as PSIX records it196 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
133 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 September 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.

Radio station licence

WDH3837MMSI 367611450 · cancelled · compulsorily equipped · granted 22 March 2014, cancelled 13 February 2019 · licensed under a name not among this hull’s recorded names (not shown)

WDD7527MMSI 367187640 · cancelled · compulsorily equipped · granted 16 May 2007, cancelled 27 March 2014 · licensed under a name not among this hull’s recorded names (not shown)

WBO5823MMSI 366374180 · expired · compulsorily equipped · granted 8 October 1997, cancelled 23 February 2008 · licensed under a name not among this hull’s recorded names (not shown)

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 · 3

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.

LLOYD HARBOR Freight Barge · MISLE 45677 · 12 November 2014 · activity 5022854 SEAN C O'KEEFE Freight Barge · MISLE 400751 · 27 July 2014 · activity 4936548 HUGHES 182 Freight Barge · MISLE 424262 · 27 July 2014 · activity 4936548

Inspection history · 12

1 July 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Boston · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7492278

15 April 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Boston · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7183222

8 October 2020 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Boston · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7073745

23 July 2020 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Boston · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7013822

24 November 2014 Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 5029050

12 November 2014 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Long Island Sound · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 5022854

21 August 2014 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 4962261

27 July 2014 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 4936548

27 July 2014 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 5033995

15 April 2011 MTSA Verification · DAPI Audit · Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Sector Southeastern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 3986914

12 July 2004 Uninspected Other

Physical examination · MSO PROVIDENCE · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 2130104

25 January 2002 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · MSO PROVIDENCE · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1481393

Deficiency record · 1

01 - Certificates & Documentation › 011 - Ships Certificates › Certificate of Inspection (COI)

Issued 23 July 2020 Resolved

All owners or managing operators of one or more existing towing vessels required to have a COI by this subchapter must ensure that each existing towing vessel under their ownership or control is issued a valid COI according to the following schedule: By July 20, 2020, at least 50 percent of the towing vessels must have valid COIs on board. Vessel did not receive COI within required timeframe. Vessel must apply for and receive a COI within 90 days.

Condition: Placed in Improper Service
Action required: 60 - Rectify deficiencies prior to movement
Due 21 October 2020
Resolved 1 July 2022
Resolution: Vessel scrapped.

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.