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BUDDY
Towing Vessel · Built 1980s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Other hulls named BUDDY · LUHR BROS., INC. operator of record, 2023
BUDDY is a 1980 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 9 inspections since 2003, most recently in May 2025, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2012.
Records from 2003 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 9 May 2025.
- Built
- 1980
- Last inspected
- 9 May 2025
- Documentation
- Valid · documentation file of 10 September 2026
- Deficiencies
- 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
- Controls
- None recorded without a removal date
- Casualties
- 1 investigation · 2012
Identity
630004
WSJ9116
192266
Flag
UNITED STATES
367717340
Maury page id
psix-192266
Inspections, by type
…with no type recorded2
Years with a record
7 calendar years (2003–2025)
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)46.1 ft × 19.8 ft × 6.6 ft
Registered tonnagegross 45 / net 31
ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded
ITC tonnageNot recorded
Builderbuilder not recorded · GUILD · built 1980
Hull materialSteel
PropulsionNot recorded
Hull shapeNot recorded
Hull configurationNot recorded
Hailing portST LOUIS, MO
Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry
DocumentationValid · issued 15 November 2025 · expires 31 December 2026
Service, as the file records itTowing Vessel
Hull formunknown (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)
Tonnage as PSIX records it45 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
31 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
31 - 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
WDI6307MMSI 367717340 · active · compulsorily equipped · granted 10 January 2026, expires 25 February 2036
WDI6306MMSI 367717330 · expired · compulsorily equipped · granted 25 February 2016, cancelled 2 May 2026
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 · 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.
THE ADMIRAL Towing Vessel · MISLE 74556 · 11 July 2012 · activity 4375264THE ADMIRAL Towing Vessel · MISLE 74556 · 22 June 2012 · activity 4361199Inspection history · 9
9 May 2025
TPO Audit · Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector Upper Mississippi River · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8145645
28 April 2025
COI Inspection · Administrative Inspection
Physical examination · Sector Upper Mississippi River · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8121593
9 September 2022
Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Sector Ohio Valley · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7556755
22 January 2020
Initial Certification · Administrative Inspection
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6912886
11 July 2012
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4375264
22 June 2012
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4361199
1 November 2010
Industry Initiated Exam · Deficiency Check · MTSA Verification
Physical examination · Sector Upper Mississippi River · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3882182
30 June 2005
MTSA Verification
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2572154
22 December 2003
Security Plan Review - ASP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1978704
Deficiency record · 0
No deficiencies recorded against this vessel. This means none were written in the records covered — it is not a statement about the vessel's condition. What a recorded resolution is.
Casualty record · 1
22 June 2012Significant Marine Casualty · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · at LOCK AND DAM 52 · activity 4361199
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.
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.