JIM WALDEN

Towing Vessel · Built 1970s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

JIM WALDEN is a 1979 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 12 inspections since 1996, most recently in September 2025, along with 1 deficiency, 1 operational control and 1 casualty investigation in 2018.

Records from 1996 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 2 September 2025.

Built: 1979
Last inspected: 2 September 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 12
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2018
Inspected with: 4 other vessels

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 2 September 2025

Recorded inspections12

…physical examinations4

…administrative events5

…with no type recorded3

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 9 calendar years (1996–2025)

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

609341

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WDC4781

173527

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-173527

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)64.5 ft × 23.0 ft × 6.6 ft

Registered tonnagegross 83 / net 56

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderSUPERIOR BOAT WORKS INC · GREENVILLE, MS, UNITED STATES · built 1979

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portHELENA, AR

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 10 June 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 it83 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
56 - 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 · 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.

JACOB KYLE RUSTHOVEN Towing Vessel · MISLE 98451 · 12 September 2018 · activity 6539597 DAVID SOLOMON Towing Vessel · MISLE 194628 · 12 September 2018 · activity 6539597 GD 953 Freight Barge · MISLE 416153 · 12 September 2018 · activity 6539597 BILL ATKINSON Towing Vessel · MISLE 1053800 · 12 September 2018 · activity 6539597

Inspection history · 12

2 September 2025 COI Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8214467

7 March 2025 TPO Audit

Administrative · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8092495

1 April 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7889454

2 September 2020 Initial Certification

Physical examination · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7055209

17 June 2020 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6979191

12 September 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6539597

29 February 2012 Deficiency Check · Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4217629

27 January 2009 Administration

Administrative · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3411808

17 September 2007 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3059739

15 February 2005 MTSA Verification

Physical examination · MSO MEMPHIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2293148

6 June 1996 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO MEMPHIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 680189

18 April 1996 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO MEMPHIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 171028

Deficiency record · 1

01 - Certificates & Documentation › 011 - Ships Certificates › Certificate of Inspection (COI)

Issued 17 June 2020 Resolved

All owners & operators of an existing towing vessel must have a valid COI prior to the specified phase-in period. This vessel is on of the 25% of the vessels that has not obtained a valid COI. the vessel shall be made available for a Coast Guard COI inspection within 90 days*. If an inspection is not completed prior to this date, the action for this deficiency shall be changes to a CODE 60(Rectify deficiencies prior to movement) and the vessel may no longer be permitted to operate. *Your vessel is utilizing the TPO/TSMS compliance option, therefore your vessel shall meet all the COI requirements of your TPO and submit all required documentation to our office in Memphis, TN.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 30 September 2020
Resolved 14 September 2020
Resolution: Vessel recd COI with issue date 14SEP2020.

Casualty record · 1

12 September 2018Major Marine Casualty · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 6539597

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.