HORNBECK OFFSHORE SERVICES INC. (2)

H497 is based on portside and starboard photographs of Freedom Service dated 27 April 2008 and 21 May 2013. Rosanoski suggests that these may be the usual colours of the barge-pushing tugs in Hornbeck Offshore Transportation; Patriot Service also showed them.

Sea Service, in the same division, showed H498 in photographs dated 5 January 2006 and 27 April 2008. The animal head faces forward on both sides, with the starboard emblem appearing as the usual mirror image.

H499 is based on portside and starboard photographs of HOS Trader dated 14 and 15 May 2006, again with the head facing forward. Photographs of other supply vessels indicate that this was their standard livery. On vessels without a funnel the logo appeared on the superstructure.

The later business, also known as HOS, was formed in June 1997 from LEEVAC Marine and Hornbeck Offshore Services. The website calls its initial name HV Marine Services; Lloyds gives Hornbeck-Leevac Marine Services. The website dates the change to Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc. to June 2002, while a later Lloyds account gives Hornbeck Marines Services Inc. Rosanoski stresses that this company was independent of Tidewater: misleading register entries were clarified in 2007–08. In July 2013 a small tug-and-barge fleet was sold to Genesis Marine.

The later group included Hornbeck Offshore Operators, Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC, and businesses in Mexico and Trinidad & Tobago. Its tug-and-barge operation became Hornbeck Offshore Transportation LLC in 2002, having previously been Leevac Marine LLC. Register accounts disagree on the latter’s formation date, giving 2003 in one account and 1998 in another.

USA, Mandeville and subsequently Covington, Louisiana.