USNS WESTWIND

Public Vessel, Unclassified · Miscellaneous Vessel class · Built 2000s · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE)

USNS WESTWIND is a 2009 public vessel, unclassified. The Coast Guard has recorded 23 inspections since 2016, most recently in April 2026, along with 4 deficiencies, 1 operational control and 3 casualty investigations between 2009 and 2016.

Records from 2009 to 2026. Most recent: inspection, 17 April 2026.

Built: 2009
Last inspected: 17 April 2026
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 23
Deficiencies: 4 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 3 investigations · 2009–2016
Also recorded as: 2 other names

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 Miscellaneous Vessel class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 17 April 2026

Recorded inspections23

…physical examinations18

…administrative events4

…with no type recorded1

Deficiencies 4 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 11 calendar years (2016–2026)

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

1205146

9472359

NWES

870847

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-870847

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it2428 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
1562 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
728 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
1062 - 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, 2016 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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Inspection history · 23

17 April 2026 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8351410

14 October 2025 Administrative Inspection · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8251456

29 April 2025 Annual Inspection · MARPOL Annex I Examination

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8123396

2 February 2024 Drydock Exam · COI Inspection · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7859540

2 February 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7630992

16 August 2022 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7535469

19 April 2022 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7433901

1 December 2021 Drydock Exam · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7364170

23 September 2021 In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7318964

10 May 2021 Periodic Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7193535

12 May 2020 Administrative Inspection · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6951818

25 August 2019 In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6793728

2 April 2019 In-Service Inspection · MARPOL Annex I Examination · MARPOL Annex VI Survey · MARPOL Annex IV Survey · COI Inspection · Drydock Exam · Administrative Inspection · Internal Structural Exam · MTSA/ISPS Verification

Physical examination · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6655720

12 March 2019 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6640849

27 September 2018 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6549868

27 March 2018 SIP Inspection/Audit · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6378735

20 June 2017 Annual Inspection · MTSA/ISPS Verification · Administrative Inspection · Deficiency Check · SIP Inspection/Audit

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6176527

11 April 2017 Hull Examination · Administrative Inspection · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Morgan City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6122423

8 March 2017 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6101908

21 February 2017 Drydock Extension

Administrative · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6092057

9 December 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6055258

31 October 2016 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6032777

11 April 2016 Annual Inspection · SIP Initial Entry · MTSA/ISPS Verification

Physical examination · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 5851176

Deficiency record · 4

Lifesaving › Lifebuoys › Markings (ship name/port)

Issued 20 June 2017 Resolved

Mark all lifesaving & firefighting equipment with vessel name (USNS WESTWIND). Contact USCG for follow-up to issue name change certificates.

Condition: Invalid
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 21 July 2017
Resolved 21 July 2017
Resolution: Markings Complete

Engineering › Steering Gear System › Rudder Angle Indicator

Issued 20 June 2017 Resolved

Adjust/align rudder angle indicators to meet SOLAS 74am (35-35 degrees)

Condition: Design Flaw
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 7 July 2017
Resolved 21 July 2017
Resolution: Repaired rudder indicator

Construction/Loadline › Hull › Hull Plating

Issued 8 March 2017 Resolved

Cracked weld on upper center line skeg transverse weld allowing water to seep in.

Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 10 March 2017
Resolution: Vessel made temp repair.

Construction/Loadline › Hull › Transverse Frame

Issued 31 October 2016 Resolved

46 CFR 91.30-1

Condition: Damaged By Earlier Event
Action required: 701 - Prior to carriage of passengers/cargo
Resolved 3 November 2016
Resolution: Temporary repairs observed by the attending Marine Inspector and the ABS Surveyor were of satisfactory craftsmanship. The vessel is to make permanent repairs to the hull and replace the frame to original at the next drydock.

Casualty record · 3

1 August 2009Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 3556406

4 June 2014Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4880970

9 December 2016Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6055258

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.

Recorded names · 2

HOS WESTWIND (2009–2014), WESTWIND (2016). 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.