THE COLONEL

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

THE COLONEL is a 2019 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 8 inspections since 2020, most recently in April 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 1 casualty investigation in 2025.

Records from 2020 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 4 April 2025.

Built: 2019
Last inspected: 4 April 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 8
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2025
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 4 April 2025

Recorded inspections8

…physical examinations5

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded1

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 5 calendar years (2020–2025)

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

1299342

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WDL3283

1596428

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1596428

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)114.6 ft × 34.0 ft × 10.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 538 / net 538

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)114.6 ft × 34.0 ft × 10.5 ft

ITC tonnagegross 599 / net 179

BuilderSTEINER SHIPYARD INC · BAYOU LA BATRE, AL, UNITED STATES · built 2019

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeShip

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portST LOUIS, MO

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 4 November 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 it599 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
538 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
179 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
538 - 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.

SD 2508 Tank Barge · MISLE 993506 · 5 January 2025 · activity 8080809

Inspection history · 8

4 April 2025 COI Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8104760

5 January 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Upper Mississippi River · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8080809

31 October 2024 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Ft. Smith · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8027598

18 October 2024 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Ft. Smith · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8021356

6 September 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7785811

30 August 2021 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7300279

11 December 2020 TPO Audit

Administrative · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7135102

25 March 2020 Initial Certification

Physical examination · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6940496

Deficiency record · 1

09 - Working and Living Conditions › 092 - Working Conditions › Machinery

Issued 18 October 2024 Resolved

Machinery and electrical systems must be designed and maintained to provide for safe operation of the towing vessel and safety of person onboard under normal and emergency conditions. Vessel was found to have a failure of one of the vessels Z drives due to an allision which caused a loss of steering and rendered the Z drive inoperable. Rectify Prior to Movement, to the satisfaction of the Coast Guard or TPO.

Condition: Damaged By Earlier Event
Action required: 60 - Rectify deficiencies prior to movement
Due 15 November 2024
Resolved 30 October 2024
Resolution: TPO cleared the deficiency and submitted proof of compliance.

Casualty record · 1

5 January 2025Routine · role: Sighted in Area · activity 8080809

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.