RACHAEL ALLEN

Towing Vessel · Built 2020s · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW)

RACHAEL ALLEN is a 2021 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 8 inspections since 2021, most recently in July 2025, along with 2 deficiencies, 1 operational control and 2 casualty investigations between 2022 and 2025.

Records from 2021 to 2025. Most recent: operational control imposed, 18 July 2025.

Built: 2021
Last inspected: 18 July 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 8
Deficiencies: 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2022–2025
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 18 July 2025

Recorded inspections8

…physical examinations3

…administrative events3

…with no type recorded2

Deficiencies 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 4 calendar years (2021–2025)

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

1301267

9921764

WDM3329

1604477

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1604477

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)95.1 ft × 39.9 ft × 16.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 196 / net 134

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)95.1 ft × 39.9 ft × 16.5 ft

ITC tonnagegross 418 / net 125

BuilderNICHOLS BROTHERS BOAT BUILDERS · FREELAND, WA, UNITED STATES · built 2021

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portSEATTLE, WA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 18 April 2026 · expires 31 May 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 it418 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
196 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
125 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
134 - 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.

STI MAGIC Tank Ship · MISLE 1542784 · 16 June 2022 · activity 7480454

Inspection history · 8

18 July 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 8188874

17 July 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 8188881

5 August 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7971865

7 October 2022 Plan Review (Other than "T") · Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7573658

16 June 2022 Administrative Inspection · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7479714

16 June 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7480454

22 June 2021 In-Service Inspection · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7233250

4 June 2021 Construction Oversight · Initial Certification · Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7215439

Deficiency record · 2

13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Propulsion main engine

Issued 17 July 2025 Resolved

Propulsion machinery, including main engines, reduction gears, shafting, bearings, and electrical equipment and systems, must: Be maintained to ensure proper operation; Be suitable for route and service; and; Have suitable propulsion controls to provide the operator full control at each operating station. Vessel experienced a loss of the port main engine. Provide tech report with root cause analysis and repairs effected. (46 CFR 143.205(c))

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 701 - Prior to carriage of passengers/cargo
Resolved 20 July 2025
Resolution: Vessel ordered and installed replacement high-pressure fuel relief valve & high-pressure fuel pump controller. Engine performed properly with no further issues noted.

13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Operation of machinery

Issued 16 June 2022 Resolved

Propulsion machinery, including main engines, reduction gears, shafting, bearings, and electrical equipment and systems, must: Be maintained to ensure proper operation; Starboard propeller is fouled from towline. 46 CFR 143.205(c)

Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 16 July 2022
Resolved 5 July 2022
Resolution: Vessel submitted survey report indacting no damage to propeller. Def is cleared.

Casualty record · 2

16 June 2022Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7480454

18 July 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8188874

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.