CLAIR S SMITH

Towing Vessel · Built 2010s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

CLAIR S SMITH is a 2012 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 17 inspections since 2012, most recently in June 2024, along with 7 casualty investigations between 2012 and 2023.

Records from 2012 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 17 June 2024.

Built: 2012
Last inspected: 17 June 2024
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 17
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 7 investigations · 2012–2023
Inspected with: 11 other vessels

Identity

1239505

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WDG4946

1174012

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1174012

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations7

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded8

Years with a record 8 calendar years (2012–2024)

The 17 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)83.5 ft × 32.0 ft × 11.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 322 / net 219

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)83.5 ft × 32.0 ft × 11.5 ft

ITC tonnagegross 391 / net 117

BuilderCENTRAL GULF SHIPYARD LLC · NEW IBERIA, LA, UNITED STATES · built 2012

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portHOUMA, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 15 July 2026 · expires 31 August 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 it391 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
322 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
117 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
219 - 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 · 11

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.

Inspection history · 17

17 June 2024 TPO Audit

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7959131

18 September 2023 COI Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7794121

8 June 2023 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7708189

7 June 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7709520

3 February 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7631760

1 September 2021 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7301913

30 August 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7312001

30 August 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7312019

29 August 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7314669

27 August 2020 Administrative Inspection · Drydock Exam · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7044071

2 April 2019 Drydock Exam · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6654690

30 August 2018 Initial Certification · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6527734

8 May 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6409483

1 May 2017 Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6136663

15 March 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Upper Mississippi River · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6114328

27 November 2012 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4491710

26 October 2012 Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4472721

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 · 7

27 November 2012Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4491710

15 March 2017Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) · activity 6114328

29 August 2021Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7314669

30 August 2021Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) · activity 7312001

30 August 2021Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) · activity 7312019

3 February 2023Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7631760

7 June 2023Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7709520

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.