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FORT DEFIANCE

Towing Vessel · Built 2010s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Other hulls named FORT DEFIANCE · FLOWERS, J. RUSSELL, INC. operator of record, 2023

FORT DEFIANCE is a 2017 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 9 inspections since 2018, most recently in April 2026, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2022 and 2025.

Records from 2018 to 2026. Most recent: inspection, 7 April 2026.

Built: 2017
Last inspected: 7 April 2026
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 9
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2022–2025
Inspected with: 17 other vessels

Identity

1279277

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WDJ7877

1450388

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

368010950

Maury page id

psix-1450388

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations4

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded3

Years with a record 7 calendar years (2018–2026)

The 9 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 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 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)70.0 ft × 32.0 ft × 10.9 ft

Registered tonnagegross 163 / net 130

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderJEFFBOATS LLC · JEFFERSONVILLE, IN, UNITED STATES · built 2017

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeShip

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portJEFFERSONVILLE, IN

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 29 April 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 it163 - Simplified, Gross Ton
130 - Simplified, Net Ton

Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 September 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.

Radio station licence

WDJ7877MMSI 368010950 · active · compulsorily equipped · granted 26 October 2017, expires 26 October 2027

FCC Universal Licensing System ship-station file of 6 September 2026, matched to this hull on its US Official Number. Status and dates are the file’s own. The licensee is not read from the file and is not shown. A lapsed licence’s MMSI is still the number the vessel transmitted under while it was valid.

Inspected as a tow unit · 17

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 · 9

7 April 2026 COI Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8343983

21 November 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8273253

27 November 2024 TPO Audit

Administrative · Sector Ohio Valley · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8037963

7 April 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7426793

21 March 2021 Initial Certification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7175209

30 October 2020 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7087062

16 March 2020 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6927170

14 March 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6929022

8 February 2018 Industry Initiated Exam · Administration · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6354668

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

7 April 2022Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) · serious marine incident, as classified · at U.S. HIGHWAY 190 - BATON ROUGE, LA · activity 7426793

21 November 2025Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 8273253

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, and the bridge, lock or dam the investigation names where it names one. 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.