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SPARROW
SPARROW is a 1968 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 9 inspections since 1998, most recently in October 2006, along with 3 deficiencies and 1 casualty investigation in 2002.
Records from 1998 to 2006. Most recent: inspection, 27 October 2006.
- Built
- 1968
- Last inspected
- 27 October 2006
- Documentation
- Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
- Deficiencies
- 3 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
- Controls
- None recorded without a removal date
- Casualties
- 1 investigation · 2002
Identity
518021
WDB5491
99016
Flag
UNITED STATES
366910210 (licence lapsed)
Maury page id
psix-99016
Inspections, by type
…with no type recorded1
Years with a record
5 calendar years (1998–2006)
The 9 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 20 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 it32 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
22 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
22 - 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
WDB5491MMSI 366910210 · expired · compulsorily equipped · granted 27 July 2013, cancelled 23 December 2023
WCY3120MMSI not assigned · expired · voluntarily equipped · granted 17 April 1998, cancelled 21 June 2008
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.
JAMES Towing Vessel · MISLE 231516 · 19 November 2002 · activity 1707480Inspection history · 9
27 October 2006
Security Plan Amendment Review - VSP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2809214
23 October 2006
Uninspected Other · MTSA Verification
Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2806208
23 October 2006
MTSA Verification · Uninspected Other
Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2806258
24 October 2005
Security Plan Amendment Review - VSP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2521133
27 June 2005
Security Plan Amendment Review - VSP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2405162
1 March 2005
Security Plan Amendment Review - VSP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2301460
28 October 2004
Security Plan Review - VSP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2230401
19 November 2002
Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1707480
6 February 1998
Uninspected Towing Vessel · MARPOL Annex I Examination
Physical examination · MSO Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 775984
Deficiency record · 3
Lifesaving › Lifejacket/PFD (Type I) › Lights
Issued 23 October 2006
Resolved
An approved personal flotation device light was not provided for each immersion suit, life preserver, marine buoyant device, and buoyant vest.
Fire Fighting › Portable Dry Chemical Fire Extinguisher › Number
Issued 23 October 2006
Resolved
Required number of Coast Guard approved fire extinguishers were not on board.
Communications › Alarms/Indicators › General Alarm
Issued 23 October 2006
Resolved
Failure to meet the requirements for a general alarm on a towing vessel.
Casualty record · 1
19 November 2002Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 1707480
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
LINDA GARRETT (2002). 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.