WILLIAM TYNDALE

142.330 Fire-detection system requirements. (a) Fire-detection systems. Except as provided in paragraph (a)(8) of this section, each towing vessel must have a fire-detection system installed to detect engine room fires. The owner or managing operator must ensure the following: (1) Each detector, control panel, remote indicator panel, and fire alarm are approved by the Commandant under approval series 161.002 or listed by a NRTL as set forth in 29 CFR 1910.7; (2) The system is installed, tested, and maintained in accordance with the manufacturer's design manual; (3) The system is arranged and installed so a fire in the engine room automatically sets off alarms on a fire detection control panel at the operating station. On vessels with more than one operating station, only one of them must be outfitted with a fire detection control panel. Any other operating station must be outfitted with either a fire detection control panel or a remote indicator panel Fire detection system inoperable. Operator to have agency service system prior to carriage of passengers/cargo.

The owner or managing operator must provide satisfactory evidence of the required servicing to the marine inspector or TPO, as applicable. If any of the equipment or records have not been properly maintained, a qualified servicing facility must perform the required inspections , maintenance procedures, and hydrostatic pressure tests. A tag issued by a qualified servicing organization, and attached to each extinguisher may be accepted as evidence that the necessary maintenance procedures have been conducted. 160B extinguisher did not have a tag attached.

Verification of compliance with the construction and arrangement design standard of this part must be performed before the new installation is performed on a vessel on which the new installation is not a "replacement in kind." Vessel owner/operator installed new engines that were not a "replacement in kind" without prior review and verification of design verification standards by a qualified individual or entity. Modifications included, but not limited to: changes from pneumatic controls to electronic, and exhaust cooling with addition of two independent keel coolers.

The owner or managing operator of an existing vessel not operating under a stability document must be able to show at least one of the [criteria listed in §144.300(b)(1)-(3)]. Vessel owner/operator conducted not in-kind replacement of main engines, replacements/repositioning of lube oil tanks and hydraulic tank, and addition of independent keel coolers, with no established lightweight characteristics to measure changes against due to prior grandfathering of stability.

Piping and machinery components that exceed 220 °C (428 °F), including fittings, flanges, valves, exhaust manifolds, and turbochargers, must be insulated. Exhaust lagging on port engine is deteriorated missing in places. 46 CFR 143.220(b)

Stations in the maritime service must be licensed by the FCC either individually or by fleet. Vessel did not have proof of FCC registration on-board.

The bridge-to-bridge radiotelephone station will be inspected on vessels subject to regular inspections pursuant to the requirements of Parts II and III of Title III of the Communications Act. Each vessel must carry a certificate with a valid endorsement while subject to the Bridge-to-Bridge Act.

Employers must maintain records of chemical tests as provided in 49 CFR 40.333 and must make these records available to Coast Guard officials upon request. Vessel did not have records of testing or proof of enrollment in a maritime consortium available.

Vessel temporarily lost steering in port engine due to a leak in control air. When the main steering gear includes two or more identical power units it must be capable of moving the rudder as required by 46 CFR 58.25-10 while all power units are operating. Re-seated o-ring, repaired leak and tested satisfactorily.