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DEFENDER

Towing Vessel · Built 2020s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Other hulls named DEFENDER · HINES FURLONG LINE, INC. operator of record, 2023

DEFENDER is a 2021 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 5 inspections since 2019, most recently in October 2025, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2023 and 2024.

Records from 2019 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 7 October 2025.

Built: 2021
Last inspected: 7 October 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 5
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2023–2024
Inspected with: 3 other vessels

Identity

1319784

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WDP7614

1586549

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

368219290, 368383320

Maury page id

psix-1586549

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations1

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded2

Years with a record 4 calendar years (2019–2025)

The 5 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)76.0 ft × 35.0 ft × 10.7 ft

Registered tonnagegross 239 / net 191

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderSTEINER SHIPBUILDING INC · BAYOU LA BATRE · built 2021

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeBox

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portNASHVILLE, TN

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 9 June 2026 · expires 31 July 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 it239 - Simplified, Gross Ton
191 - 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

WDP7614MMSI 368383320 · active · compulsorily equipped · granted 14 August 2024, expires 14 August 2034

WDM5794MMSI 368219290 · active · compulsorily equipped · granted 16 September 2021, expires 16 September 2031 · licensed under a name not among this hull’s recorded names (not shown)

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.

A report is not offered for this hull: It has no inspection history to report. A report is offered only when the record carries six or more inspections, a deficiency, or an operational control. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. Reports.

Inspected as a tow unit · 3

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.

CTC 29115 Tank Barge · MISLE 1647497 · 11 July 2024 · activity 7956861 HFL 421 Tank Barge · MISLE 1236449 · 16 October 2023 · activity 7847340 CTC 29147 Tank Barge · MISLE 1575559 · 16 October 2023 · activity 7847340

Inspection history · 5

7 October 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8248902

11 July 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7956861

16 October 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7847340

28 August 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7781632

14 August 2019 Plan Review (Other than "T") · Administrative Inspection · Initial Certification · Construction Oversight · Initial Construction-Excluding Oversight

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6788222

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

16 October 2023Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7847340

11 July 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7956861

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.