BETTY LOU

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

BETTY LOU is a 1973 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 15 inspections since 1999, most recently in October 2025, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2008 and 2025.

Records from 1999 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 21 October 2025.

Built: 1973
Last inspected: 21 October 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 15
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2008–2025

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 21 October 2025

Recorded inspections15

…physical examinations8

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded5

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 12 calendar years (1999–2025)

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

551839

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WDH8114

124277

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-124277

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)47.3 ft × 20.0 ft × 5.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 60 / net 41

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderSTEELSHIP CORPORATION · PINE BLUFF, AR, UNITED STATES · built 1973

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portNEW MARTINSVILLE, WV

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 20 May 2026 · expires 31 May 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 it60 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
41 - 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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Inspection history · 15

21 October 2025 Drydock Exam · Administrative Inspection · Internal Structural Exam · COI Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8256454

27 March 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8101171

2 July 2024 Administrative Inspection · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7947455

8 June 2023 Annual Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7709338

24 February 2022 Annual Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7402000

7 January 2021 Initial Certification · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7121215

19 November 2015 Industry Initiated Exam · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5768953

12 November 2015 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5765304

5 September 2012 Industry Initiated Exam · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4439010

13 December 2010 DAPI Audit

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3909565

13 December 2010 DAPI Audit

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3909573

2 December 2008 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Huntington · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3393925

21 September 2004 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HUNTINGTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2201154

29 October 2002 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · MSO HUNTINGTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1698599

25 August 1999 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 212535

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 · 2

2 December 2008Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3393925

27 March 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8101171

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.