MISS BETTY

Towing Vessel · Built 1970s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

MISS BETTY is a 1972 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 10 inspections since 2000, most recently in March 2025, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2013.

Records from 2000 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 3 March 2025.

Built: 1972
Last inspected: 3 March 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 10
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2013
Inspected with: 2 other vessels

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.

Inspection record

Last inspected 3 March 2025

Recorded inspections10

…physical examinations3

…administrative events4

…with no type recorded3

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 10 calendar years (2000–2025)

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

542325

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WDH9175

116599

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-116599

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)37.0 ft × 15.0 ft × 5.6 ft

Registered tonnagegross 35 / net 23

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderMONARK SHIPYARD INC · PINE BLUFF, AR, UNITED STATES · built 1972

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portMEMPHIS, TN

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 8 July 2025 · expires 31 July 2026

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 it35 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
23 - 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.

Vessel history report

Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

Every recorded inspection, 1980 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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Inspected as a tow unit · 2

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.

ISLAND BOY Towing Vessel · MISLE 94468 · 11 March 2022 · activity 7420042 18701 Tank Barge · MISLE 473547 · 11 March 2022 · activity 7420042

Inspection history · 10

3 March 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8087339

11 March 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7420042

26 November 2021 Initial Certification

Physical examination · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7365222

5 June 2014 Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4883999

11 September 2013 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4721391

27 September 2010 Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3858398

19 December 2006 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2843175

3 May 2005 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · MSO MEMPHIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2348997

30 December 2003 Security Plan Review - ASP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1971776

22 November 2000 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO MEMPHIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 284584

Deficiency record · 0

No deficiencies recorded against this vessel. This means none were written in the records covered — it is not a statement about the vessel's condition. What a recorded resolution is.

Casualty record · 1

11 September 2013Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4721391

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.