WILLIAM GOFFINET

Towing Vessel · Built 1980s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

WILLIAM GOFFINET is a 1985 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 10 inspections since 1986, most recently in September 2024, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2018.

Records from 1986 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 23 September 2024.

Built: 1985
Last inspected: 23 September 2024
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 10
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2018
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 23 September 2024

Recorded inspections10

…physical examinations5

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded3

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 9 calendar years (1986–2024)

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

687397

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WDI5262

254945

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-254945

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)56.0 ft × 22.0 ft × 7.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 76 / net 61

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderMARINE BUILDERS INC · UTICA, IN, UNITED STATES · built 1985

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeBox

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portTELL CITY, IN

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 12 February 2026 · expires 28 February 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 it76 - Simplified, Gross Ton
61 - Simplified, 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.

SUE CHAPPELL Towing Vessel · MISLE 133234 · 7 April 2018 · activity 6387723

Inspection history · 10

23 September 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Ohio Valley · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8008031

8 March 2022 Initial Certification · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Ohio Valley · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7417129

5 November 2021 TPO Audit

Administrative · Sector Ohio Valley · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7324952

7 April 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Ohio Valley · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6387723

19 October 2011 Industry Initiated Exam · Administration · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Ohio Valley · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4172255

8 February 2010 Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Sector Ohio Valley · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3680990

3 December 2002 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · MSO LOUISVILLE · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1714352

22 January 2002 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · MSO LOUISVILLE · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1482107

13 March 2001 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO LOUISVILLE · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 288141

3 December 1986 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO LOUISVILLE · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 313103

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

7 April 2018Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 6387723

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.