RED RIVER EXPRESS

Towing Vessel · Built 2000s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

RED RIVER EXPRESS is a 2009 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 22 inspections since 2009, most recently in June 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 4 casualty investigations between 2013 and 2023.

Records from 2009 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 18 June 2025.

Built: 2009
Last inspected: 18 June 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 22
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 4 investigations · 2013–2023
Inspected with: 5 other vessels

Identity

1222185

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WDF9426

1030046

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1030046

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations7

…administrative events5

…with no type recorded10

Years with a record 11 calendar years (2009–2025)

The 22 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.

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 Towing Vessel class in Maury's sources begin in 1980.

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)80.6 ft × 30.0 ft × 11.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 218 / net 148

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)80.6 ft × 30.0 ft × 11.0 ft

ITC tonnagegross 299 / net 89

BuilderJOHN BLUDWORTH SHIPYARD LLC · CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, UNITED STATES · built 2009

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portHOUSTON, TX

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 7 May 2026 · expires 30 June 2027

Service, as the file records itTowing Vessel

Hull formpowered (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it299 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
218 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
89 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
148 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton

Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 August 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.

One vessel history report for this hull — every record on this page in one dated, citable document — $300, on request.

Inspected as a tow unit · 5

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.

MISS MONIE Towing Vessel · MISLE 201659 · 21 May 2023 · activity 7694024 T&T 3058 Tank Barge · MISLE 874298 · 21 May 2023 · activity 7694024 GM 5011 Tank Barge · MISLE 1013100 · 21 May 2023 · activity 7694024 JOHNNY M Towing Vessel · MISLE 1027964 · 13 March 2015 · activity 5083269 GM 3003 Tank Barge · MISLE 744265 · 9 October 2014 · activity 5003055

Inspection history · 22

18 June 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8162249

8 June 2025 In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8155162

4 March 2024 COI Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7873989

21 December 2023 TPO Audit

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7840032

21 May 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7694024

6 April 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7664210

8 September 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7554580

3 August 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7524836

25 January 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7385547

30 September 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7324333

1 August 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7274452

22 May 2019 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6691114

29 April 2019 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6672744

14 April 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6662775

17 December 2018 Initial Certification

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6636536

9 May 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6416052

15 April 2018 Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6398305

13 March 2015 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5083269

9 October 2014 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5003055

13 January 2014 MTSA Verification · Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4782430

19 January 2013 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Victoria · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4519022

5 November 2009 MTSA Verification · Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3628190

Deficiency record · 1

13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Propulsion main engine

Issued 18 June 2025 Resolved

Machinery and electrical systems must be designed and maintained to provide for safe operation of the towing vessel and safety of persons onboard under normal and emergency conditions. Vessel suffered a loss of propulsion while transiting The Houston Ship Channel. Vessel shall enact permanent repairs to the satisfaction of the TPO and submit TPO report to [email withheld] 46 CFR 143.205(a)

Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 19 June 2025
Resolution: TPO Report Received

Casualty record · 4

19 January 2013Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4519022

9 May 2018Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6416052

14 April 2019Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6662775

21 May 2023Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7694024

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.

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.