LOU GOLDING

Towing Vessel · Built 2020s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

LOU GOLDING is a 2022 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 6 inspections since 2022, most recently in February 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 1 casualty investigation in 2025.

Records from 2022 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 13 February 2025.

Built: 2022
Last inspected: 13 February 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 6
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2025

Identity

1325048

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WDN2530

1719316

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1719316

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations3

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded1

Years with a record 4 calendar years (2022–2025)

The 6 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 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.

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)80.0 ft × 34.0 ft × 10.7 ft

Registered tonnagegross 281 / net 84

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)80.0 ft × 34.0 ft × 10.7 ft

ITC tonnagegross 281 / net 84

BuilderVESSEL REPAIR · PORT ARTHUR, TX, UNITED STATES · built 2022

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Electric

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portVICKSBURG, MS

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 15 May 2026 · expires 30 June 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 it281 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
280 - Displacement, Gross Ton
84 - 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.

One vessel history report for this hull — every record on this page in one dated, citable document — $300, on request.

Inspection history · 6

13 February 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8093537

9 May 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7909108

31 October 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7817918

23 August 2023 Deficiency Check · Damage Survey

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7774679

8 June 2022 Initial Certification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7491731

12 May 2022 Construction Oversight

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7449491

Deficiency record · 1

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

Issued 23 August 2023 Resolved

Machinery and electrical systems must be designed and maintained to provide for safe operation of the towing vessel and safety of persons on board under normal and emergency conditions. Marine Inspector was notified by SCC of T/V LOU GOLDING loss of port engine while transiting. Vessel was able to regain use of port engine. Vessel is authorized a one time transit to repair facility within the Houston OCMI zone to troubleshoot and enact repairs to the satisfaction of TPO.

Condition: Damaged By Earlier Event
Action required: 60 - Rectify deficiencies prior to movement
Resolved 23 August 2023
Resolution: Vessel submitted repairs made to gear box piping to the satisfaction of a CG Marine Inspector.

Casualty record · 1

13 February 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8093537

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.