ALEX PIEHET

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

ALEX PIEHET is a 2012 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 10 inspections since 2012, most recently in July 2026, along with 1 deficiency and 1 casualty investigation in 2025.

Records from 2012 to 2026. Most recent: inspection, 10 July 2026.

Built: 2012
Last inspected: 10 July 2026
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 10
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2025
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 10 July 2026

Recorded inspections10

…physical examinations5

…administrative events3

…with no type recorded2

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 7 calendar years (2012–2026)

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

1242686

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WDG5809

1212181

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1212181

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)87.1 ft × 32.0 ft × 10.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 275 / net 210

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)87.1 ft × 32.0 ft × 10.0 ft

ITC tonnagegross 343 / net 102

BuilderEASTERN SHIPBUILDING GROUP INC · PANAMA CITY, FL, UNITED STATES · built 2012

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portNEW ORLEANS, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 10 September 2025 · expires 31 October 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 it343 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
275 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
102 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
210 - 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.

FMT 3134 Tank Barge · MISLE 666200 · 6 May 2025 · activity 8129739 FMT 3136 Tank Barge · MISLE 669455 · 6 May 2025 · activity 8129739

Inspection history · 10

10 July 2026 Bulk Liquid Transfer Monitor

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8439115

14 October 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8251640

6 May 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8129739

6 May 2025 Damage Survey · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8130326

1 December 2023 Bulk Liquid Transfer Monitor

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7833260

19 May 2021 Administrative Inspection · Initial Certification

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7201238

27 January 2021 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7131696

22 December 2020 Administrative Inspection · TPO Audit

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7115184

12 July 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6206937

14 November 2012 DAPI Audit · MTSA Verification · Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4495100

Deficiency record · 1

10 - Safety of Navigation › N/A - No Subsystem › Radar

Issued 6 May 2025 Resolved

Vessels must have a marine radar. Vessels radar transponders were knocked off while transitting under a bridge.

Condition: Damaged By Earlier Event
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Due 7 May 2025
Resolved 7 May 2025
Resolution: Vessel sent in report indicating all systems were repaired and fully operational.

Casualty record · 1

6 May 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8129739

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.