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WALTER

WALTER is a 1995 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 41 inspections since 1996, most recently in April 2025, along with 9 casualty investigations between 2008 and 2022.

Records from 1996 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 9 April 2025.

Built
1995
Last inspected
9 April 2025
Documentation
Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Controls
None recorded without a removal date

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 9 April 2025
…with no type recorded30
Operational controls None recorded without a removal date
Years with a record 17 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

WDF2436
426008
Flag
UNITED STATES
Maury page id
psix-426008

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)70.0 ft × 28.0 ft × 9.5 ft
Registered tonnagegross 124 / net 99
ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded
ITC tonnageNot recorded
BuilderCENAC TOWING CO INC · HOUMA LA, UNITED STATES · built 1995
Hull materialSteel
PropulsionDiesel Reduction
Hull shapeShip
Hull configurationMonohull
Hailing portHOUMA, LA
Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry
DocumentationValid · issued 20 November 2025 · expires 31 December 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 it124 - Simplified, Gross Ton
99 - 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 · 15

Inspection history · 41

9 April 2025 Administrative Inspection · COI Inspection
Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8109084
13 December 2022 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7608434
17 August 2022 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7536056
16 August 2022 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7546525
18 April 2022 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7442576
26 July 2021 Administrative Inspection
Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Morgan City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7268275
24 July 2021 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Morgan City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7268258
10 March 2021 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7154111
3 February 2021 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7135485
12 May 2020 MTSA Verification · Administrative Inspection · Initial Certification
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6951882
13 March 2018 Administration · Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA Verification
Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6371300
2 January 2016 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5790384
13 May 2013 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4590574
17 August 2012 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4416832
7 July 2012 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4371978
24 February 2012 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4251713
12 December 2011 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4206706
13 July 2011 Marine Casualty Follow Up
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Morgan City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4081287
13 July 2011 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Morgan City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4082766
13 July 2011 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Morgan City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4133141
11 July 2011 Deficiency Check
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4079091
1 July 2011 Deficiency Check · MTSA Verification · Industry Initiated Exam · DAPI Audit
Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4064342
8 March 2011 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3960057
26 February 2011 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3953028
9 February 2010 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3677707
10 October 2009 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3612823
12 December 2008 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3378947
29 May 2008 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Morgan City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3671408
2 November 2006 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2813267
4 October 2006 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2797080
19 July 2006 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2718481
17 July 2006 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2716762
27 June 2006 Uninspected Other · MTSA Verification
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2693451
2 December 2003 Security Plan Review - ASP
Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1965732
9 November 2000 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 284190
24 May 2000 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Panama City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 88281
3 February 2000 Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1516829
11 January 1998 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8831
10 November 1996 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 50052
10 January 1996 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 86602
10 January 1996 Type not recorded
No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 227783

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 · 9

29 May 2008Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3671408
26 February 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3953028
13 July 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4133141
24 February 2012Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 4251713
2 January 2016Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 5790384
10 March 2021Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7154111
24 July 2021Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7268258
18 April 2022Routine · role: Acknowledged Pollution Source · activity 7442576
16 August 2022Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7546525
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.

Recorded names · 1

WALTER CENAC (2008). Names as the Coast Guard recorded them in incident records, with the years they appear; some are renames and some are spelling variants.

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.