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JOHN AUSTIN
JOHN AUSTIN is a 2021 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 9 inspections since 2022, most recently in October 2025, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2023 and 2024.
Records from 2022 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 2 October 2025.
- Built
- 2021
- Last inspected
- 2 October 2025
- Documentation
- Valid · documentation file of 10 September 2026
- Deficiencies
- 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
- Controls
- None recorded without a removal date
- Casualties
- 2 investigations · 2023–2024
Identity
1279908
WDM9005
1459743
Flag
UNITED STATES
368219940
Maury page id
psix-1459743
Inspections, by type
…with no type recorded3
Years with a record
4 calendar years (2022–2025)
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)80.6 ft × 34.0 ft × 11.0 ft
Registered tonnagegross 298 / net 203
ITC dimensions (L × B × D)80.6 ft × 34.0 ft × 11.0 ft
ITC tonnagegross 365 / net 109
BuilderC & C MARINE AND REPAIR LLC · BELLE CHASSE, LA, UNITED STATES · built 2021
Hull materialSteel
PropulsionDiesel Reduction
Hull shapeNot recorded
Hull configurationNot recorded
Hailing portNEW ORLEANS, LA
Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted
DocumentationValid · issued 23 December 2025 · expires 31 December 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 it365 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
298 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
109 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
203 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
298 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
109 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
203 - 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 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
WDM9005MMSI 368248580 · cancelled · compulsorily equipped · granted 7 April 2022, cancelled 31 July 2025
WDM5861MMSI 368219940 · active · compulsorily equipped · granted 22 September 2021, expires 22 September 2031
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 · 4
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.
MRT 550 Freight Barge · MISLE 779287 · 27 February 2024 · activity 7881764CTC 9926 Freight Barge · MISLE 1828906 · 27 February 2024 · activity 7881764CONNIE K Towing Vessel · MISLE 424904 · 28 May 2023 · activity 7710739CTC 9906 Freight Barge · MISLE 1783480 · 28 May 2023 · activity 7710739Inspection history · 9
2 October 2025
Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8245355
6 August 2025
Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8203594
29 March 2024
TPO Audit
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7884587
27 February 2024
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7881764
2 January 2024
Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7844452
13 June 2023
Type not recorded
No type recorded · STATION PITTSBURGH · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7715001
28 May 2023
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7710739
16 May 2022
TPO Audit
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7454439
6 April 2022
COI Inspection
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7425557
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
28 May 2023Routine · role: Sighted in Area · activity 7710739
27 February 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · at PIKE ISLAND LOCK AND DAM · activity 7881764
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.