CHARLES HUGHES

Towing Vessel · Built 2020s · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Other hulls named CHARLES HUGHES

CHARLES HUGHES is a 2021 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 7 inspections since 2021, most recently in March 2025, along with 1 deficiency.

Records from 2021 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 4 March 2025.

Built: 2021
Last inspected: 4 March 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 7
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

Identity

1294624

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WDM5939

1551717

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

368220710

Maury page id

psix-1551717

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations7

Years with a record 5 calendar years (2021–2025)

The 7 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)90.2 ft × 34.0 ft × 10.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 199 / net 135

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)90.2 ft × 34.0 ft × 10.5 ft

ITC tonnagegross 364 / net 109

BuilderCHESAPEAKE SHIPBUILDING CORP · SALISBURY, MD, UNITED STATES · built 2021

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeNot recorded

Hull configurationNot recorded

Hailing portBALTIMORE, MD

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 14 November 2025 · expires 31 October 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 it364 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
199 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
109 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
135 - 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

WDM5939MMSI 368220710 · active · compulsorily equipped · granted 28 September 2021, expires 28 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.

Inspection history · 7

4 March 2025 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 8088205

12 December 2024 Administrative Inspection · Drydock Exam · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 8040382

5 March 2024 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7873678

21 March 2023 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7654492

28 September 2022 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Maryland-National Capital Region · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7567903

15 September 2022 In-Service Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Maryland-National Capital Region · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7559847

23 December 2021 Initial Certification · Construction Oversight

Physical examination · Sector Maryland-National Capital Region · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7319012

Deficiency record · 1

10 - Safety of Navigation › N/A - No Subsystem › Lights, shapes, sound-signals

Issued 15 September 2022 Resolved

Each towing vessel must be arranged so that the following essential loads can be energized from two independent sources of electricity: Navigation lights. Vessel's Starboard Nav Light was inoperable and use of a temporary portable battery operated light was being used.

Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Due 29 September 2022
Resolved 28 September 2022
Resolution: Received photographic evidence of newly installed/working stbd nav light

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.