RAYMOND BUTLER

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

RAYMOND BUTLER is a 2019 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 7 inspections since 2021, most recently in June 2026, along with 2 deficiencies and 1 casualty investigation in 2021.

Records from 2021 to 2026. Most recent: inspection, 12 June 2026.

Built: 2019
Last inspected: 12 June 2026
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 7
Deficiencies: 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2021
Inspected with: 1 other vessel

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.

Inspection record

Last inspected 12 June 2026

Recorded inspections7

…physical examinations4

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded2

Deficiencies 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 3 calendar years (2021–2026)

Every line above is a count of records the US Coast Guard wrote, or a date it recorded. A blank resolution means none was recorded in this data; it does not establish that a deficiency is outstanding. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Identity

1298417

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WDL3994

1591631

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1591631

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 2019

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portNEW ORLEANS, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 9 September 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 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

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.

Vessel history report

Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

Every recorded inspection, 1980 to 2026 for this class, in one chronology · every deficiency, with system, dates and resolution · operational controls imposed and removed · every name this hull has been recorded under · the vessels it was inspected alongside, and when · how its record compares with hulls of similar age and size, as a fact about the population and never a judgement about this vessel.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

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Inspected as a tow unit · 1

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.

NAVIG8 MACALLISTER Tank Ship · MISLE 1185192 · 8 August 2021 · activity 7280946

Inspection history · 7

12 June 2026 COI Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8402910

21 January 2026 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8299336

24 June 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7941707

24 September 2021 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7323485

8 August 2021 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7280932

8 August 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7280946

7 June 2021 Initial Certification

Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7218921

Deficiency record · 2

11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (life saving)

Issued 22 June 2021 Resolved

At least two life buoys on a towing vessel greater than 26 feet must be fitted with a floating electric water light approved series 161.010 or 161.110. Only one floating electric water light was found on vessel. Install one additional electric floating water light on a life ring with out the life line.

Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Due 6 July 2021
Resolved 6 July 2021
Resolution: Video of two new floating lights installed on life buoys provided.

11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (life saving)

Issued 7 June 2021 Resolved

At least two life buoys on a towing vessel greater than 26 feet must be fitted with a floating electric water light approved series 161.010 or 161.110. On floating electric water light was found inoperable. Battery was changed out in the presence of the marine inspector.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Due 22 June 2021
Resolved 22 June 2021
Resolution: Battery was changed out in the presence of the marine inspector.

Casualty record · 1

8 August 2021Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7280946

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.