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BLUEBIRD

BLUEBIRD is a 1942 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 12 inspections since 1996, most recently in December 2012, along with 1 deficiency — 1 with no resolution recorded — and 1 casualty investigation in 2007.

Records from 1996 to 2012. Most recent: inspection, 6 December 2012.

Built
1942
Last inspected
6 December 2012
Documentation
Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Controls
None recorded without a removal date

Identity

WDA7256
Flag
UNITED STATES
366841340 (licence lapsed)
Maury page id
psix-86031

Inspections, by type

…with no type recorded2
…past their stated due date1
Years with a record 9 calendar years (1996–2012)
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 14 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 it173 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
115 - 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

WDA7256MMSI 366841340 · expired · compulsorily equipped · granted 22 December 2011, cancelled 7 May 2022
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.

MERLIN EXPLORER Tank Ship · MISLE 54072 · 21 December 1996 · activity 175553

Inspection history · 12

6 December 2012 Administration
Administrative · Commandant (CG-CVC) · Activity 4497504
7 January 2009 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3393306
23 August 2007 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Brownsville · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3038656
30 November 2006 Uninspected Other · MTSA Verification
Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2831685
27 October 2006 Security Plan Amendment Review - VSP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2809208
24 October 2005 Security Plan Amendment Review - VSP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2521145
27 June 2005 Security Plan Amendment Review - VSP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2405158
1 March 2005 Security Plan Amendment Review - VSP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2301453
28 October 2004 Security Plan Review - VSP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2230406
29 December 2003 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1971108
25 September 2001 Uninspected Other
Physical examination · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1073653
21 December 1996 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 175553

Deficiency record · 1

Fire Fighting › Remote Fuel Shutoff › General
Issued 30 November 2006 No resolution recorded
CURRENT f/O sHUT OFF IS HYDRUALICALLY ACTUATED AND DOES NOT COMPLY WITH CURRENT REGULATIONS
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 15 January 2007 — due date passed with no resolution recorded

Casualty record · 1

23 August 2007Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3038656
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.

Recorded names · 1

SIGNET RESOLUTE (2007). 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.