LEADER

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

LEADER is a 2014 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 17 inspections since 2014, most recently in November 2025, along with 3 casualty investigations between 2018 and 2025.

Records from 2014 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 16 November 2025.

Built: 2014
Last inspected: 16 November 2025
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: 3 investigations · 2018–2025
Inspected with: 5 other vessels
Also recorded as: 1 other name

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 16 November 2025

Recorded inspections17

…physical examinations5

…administrative events4

…with no type recorded8

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 9 calendar years (2014–2025)

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

1252836

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WDH4244

1280811

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1280811

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)73.0 ft × 30.0 ft × 11.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 161 / net 129

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderCENTRAL GULF SHIPYARD LLC · NEW IBERIA, LA, UNITED STATES · built 2014

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeShip

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portGIBSON, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 28 April 2026 · expires 30 April 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 it161 - Simplified, Gross Ton
129 - Simplified, 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 · 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.

KIRBY 29060 Tank Barge · MISLE 1407499 · 2 February 2025 · activity 8073307 MTC 249B Freight Barge · MISLE 372248 · 3 June 2019 · activity 6710604 KIRBY 29148 Tank Barge · MISLE 1112927 · 3 June 2019 · activity 6710604 ST. PHILLIP Towing Vessel · MISLE 1373851 · 3 June 2019 · activity 6710604 KIRBY 29158 Tank Barge · MISLE 1249583 · 4 January 2018 · activity 6332724

Inspection history · 17

16 November 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8269123

29 September 2025 Internal Structural Exam · Drydock Exam · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8243425

20 August 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8213992

2 February 2025 Damage Survey · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Victoria · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8073294

2 February 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Victoria · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8073307

31 July 2023 COI Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7757060

12 September 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7557088

3 March 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7405412

17 January 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7381437

10 June 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7221922

12 March 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6925783

3 June 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6710604

27 November 2018 Administrative Inspection · Initial Certification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6589030

4 January 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6332724

27 June 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6188941

20 April 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6129861

20 November 2014 MTSA Verification · Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5027035

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 · 3

4 January 2018Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6332724

3 June 2019Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6710604

2 February 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8073307

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.

Recorded names · 1

SAVAGE LEGACY (2018–2019). Names as the Coast Guard recorded them in incident records, with the years they appear; some are renames and some are spelling variants.

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.