← All vessels
MAKENZIE SMITH
MAKENZIE SMITH is a 2020 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 9 inspections since 2020, most recently in August 2025, along with 6 deficiencies and 2 casualty investigations between 2022 and 2025.
Records from 2020 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 9 August 2025.
- Built
- 2020
- Last inspected
- 9 August 2025
- Documentation
- Valid · documentation file of 10 September 2026
- Deficiencies
- 6 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
- Controls
- None recorded without a removal date
- Casualties
- 2 investigations · 2022–2025
Identity
1301259
WDN7689
1604448
Flag
UNITED STATES
368310750, 368430440
Maury page id
psix-1604448
Inspections, by type
…with no type recorded4
Years with a record
6 calendar years (2020–2025)
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 × 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 2020
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 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
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 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
WDQ4961MMSI 368430440 · active · compulsorily equipped · granted 12 July 2025, expires 12 July 2035 · licensed under a name not among this hull’s recorded names (not shown)
WDN7689MMSI 368310750 · active · compulsorily equipped · granted 27 April 2023, expires 27 April 2033 · licensed under a name not among this hull’s recorded names (not shown)
WDL4233MMSI 368129460 · cancelled · compulsorily equipped · granted 28 January 2020, cancelled 8 May 2023
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.
MPX 418 Tank Barge · MISLE 1647491 · 9 August 2025 · activity 8210119MPX 432 Tank Barge · MISLE 1743817 · 9 August 2025 · activity 8210119TMTB 105 Tank Barge · MISLE 1602673 · 5 March 2022 · activity 7409757TMTB 106 Tank Barge · MISLE 1602674 · 5 March 2022 · activity 7409757Inspection history · 9
9 August 2025
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8210119
17 June 2025
Administrative Inspection · COI Inspection
Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8161487
24 April 2024
Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7900957
14 December 2023
Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7839189
5 March 2022
Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7406581
5 March 2022
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7409757
30 January 2022
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7387843
26 April 2021
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7184123
18 June 2020
Initial Certification
Physical examination · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6997860
Deficiency record · 6
13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Bilge pumping arrangements
Issued 1 August 2025
Resolved
There must be an installed or portable bilge pump for emergency dewatering. MI observed vessels installed bilge system to be inoperable due to a leaking pump shaft packing, replace/repair. Vessel has portable pump, fire pump and ballast pump as alternative means of dewatering until installed bilge system is operational. MI observed bilge system to be inoperable at time of inspection.
46 USC 143.275
07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Fire fighting equipment and appliances
Issued 1 August 2025
Resolved
A towing vessel that is certificated for rivers must be equipped with an approved 160-B semi-portable fire-extinguishing system to protect the engine room; or A fixed fire-extinguishing system installed to protect the engine room. MI found a CO2 bottle mounted to bulkhead with 50' hose and no approval number/placard.
46 CFR 142.315(a)(3)(ii)
09 - Working and Living Conditions › 092 - Working Conditions › Electrical
Issued 1 August 2025
Resolved
Machinery and electrical systems must be designed and maintained to provide for safe operation of the towing vessel and safety of persons onboard under normal and emergency conditions. MI observed accumuation of oil residue on generator windings.
46 CFR 143.205(a)
11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Lifebuoys incl. provision and disposition
Issued 1 August 2025
Resolved
The master must ensure that all lifesaving equipment is properly maintained and ready for use at all times. MI observed 4 life floats that were in need of SOLAS tape replacement.
08 - Alarms › N/A - No Subsystem › Machinery controls alarm
Issued 1 August 2025
Resolved
Each towing vessel must have a reliable means to provide notification when an emergency condition exists or an essential system develops problems that require attention. The following alarms must be provided: Low hydraulic steering fluid levels. MI found hydraulic steering system low hydraulic oil level unable to be tested and no record of testing IAW 46 CFR 140.915
01 - Certificates & Documentation › 013 - Documents › Log-books/compulsory entries
Issued 1 August 2025
Resolved
Each towing vessel must perform the applicable tests in Table 143.245(b) of this section. The tests required by this section must be recorded in accordance with part 140 of this subchapter. MI found crew to be unable to produce objective evidence of bilge pump testing records IAW 46 CFR 140.915. Bilge pick up testing shall tested and recorded quarterly IAW 46 CFR 143.245(b)/140.915
Casualty record · 2
5 March 2022Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7409757
9 August 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · at CHICKASAW AL-SOU RAILROAD BRIDGE · activity 8210119
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.
Recorded names · 1
SIGNET FREEDOM (2022). Names as the Coast Guard recorded them in incident records, with the years they appear; some are renames and some are spelling variants.
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.