LAURA BLESSEY TODD

Towing Vessel · Built 2020s · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL)

LAURA BLESSEY TODD is a 2021 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 9 inspections since 2021, most recently in October 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 2 casualty investigations between 2022 and 2024.

Records from 2021 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 21 October 2025.

Built: 2021
Last inspected: 21 October 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 9
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2022–2024

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 21 October 2025

Recorded inspections9

…physical examinations2

…administrative events3

…with no type recorded4

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 5 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

1304931

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WDM5411

1621714

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1621714

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)96.0 ft × 34.0 ft × 11.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 356 / net 324

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)96.0 ft × 34.0 ft × 11.0 ft

ITC tonnagegross 380 / net 114

BuilderVESSEL REPAIR INC · PORT ARTHUR, TX, UNITED STATES · built 2021

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portNEW ORLEANS, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 13 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 it356 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
380 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
324 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
114 - Convention (Subpart B), 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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Inspection history · 9

21 October 2025 Deficiency Check · Damage Survey

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Chicago · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 8256118

1 October 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8244811

6 March 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7877743

5 March 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7874681

24 May 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7704696

5 April 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Peoria · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7427005

22 February 2022 TPO Audit

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7634100

20 October 2021 COI Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7330914

21 September 2021 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7317313

Deficiency record · 1

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

Issued 5 March 2024 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. Vsl reports failure of the port reduction gear. Repair or replace affect components and conduct operational tests to the satisfaction of the RO/TPO. Provide the MI with a copy of the TPO report attesting to the fore-mentioned. 46CFR143.205(C)(1)(2)(3)

Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 4 April 2024
Resolved 15 March 2024
Resolution: Objective evidence recieved attesting to satisfactory repairs and tests of the affected machinery, all sat.

Casualty record · 2

5 April 2022Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7427005

6 March 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7877743

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.