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CAROLINE FRANCES

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

CAROLINE FRANCES is a 2016 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 19 inspections since 2016, most recently in March 2025, along with 5 casualty investigations between 2016 and 2025.

Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 26 March 2025.

Built
2016
Last inspected
26 March 2025
Documentation
Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections
19
Deficiencies
0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls
None recorded without a removal date
Casualties
5 investigations · 2016–2025
Inspected with
7 other vessels

Identity

US Official No.
1267551
IMO number
—
Call sign
WDI7479
MISLE id
1380266
Flag
UNITED STATES
Maury page id
psix-1380266

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations4
…administrative events5
…with no type recorded10
Years with a record 8 calendar years (2016–2025)
The 19 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)80.6 ft × 32.0 ft × 11.0 ft
Registered tonnagegross 279 / net 226
ITC dimensions (L × B × D)80.6 ft × 32.0 ft × 11.0 ft
ITC tonnagegross 334 / net 100
BuilderJOHN BLUDWORTH SHIPYARD, LLC · CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, UNITED STATES · built 2016
Hull materialSteel
PropulsionDiesel Reduction
Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED
Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED
Hailing portHOUSTON, TX
Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted
DocumentationValid · issued 7 March 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 it334 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
279 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
100 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
226 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
279 - Dead Weight, 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 · 7

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.

GM-1013 Tank Barge · MISLE 1348271 · 26 February 2023 · activity 7674616GM-1014 Tank Barge · MISLE 1348291 · 26 February 2023 · activity 7674616GM 5001 Tank Barge · MISLE 860266 · 10 May 2020 · activity 6956520CAPT TOMMY CUMMINGS Towing Vessel · MISLE 87519 · 24 May 2016 · activity 5901260RCT 9 Tank Barge · MISLE 437974 · 24 May 2016 · activity 5901260GM 3806 Tank Barge · MISLE 680837 · 24 May 2016 · activity 5901260GM 3804 Tank Barge · MISLE 680840 · 24 May 2016 · activity 5901260

Inspection history · 19

26 March 2025 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8147088
15 October 2024 Administrative Inspection · COI Inspection
Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8019392
13 June 2024 TPO Audit · Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7933945
21 May 2024 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7916855
3 April 2023 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7661909
13 March 2023 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Sabine · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7651144
26 February 2023 Damage Survey
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7642037
26 February 2023 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7674616
1 April 2022 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Sabine · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7422633
24 February 2022 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7401515
19 February 2022 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7398888
1 November 2021 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7346825
20 June 2020 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6984086
20 June 2020 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6986917
18 June 2020 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6980487
10 May 2020 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6956520
19 July 2019 Initial Certification · Administrative Inspection
Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6755289
24 May 2016 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Victoria · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5901260
18 May 2016 Industry Initiated Exam
Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5887338

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 · 5

24 May 2016Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 5901260
10 May 2020Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6956520
20 June 2020Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6986917
26 February 2023Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7674616
26 March 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8147088
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.