AMERICAN FREEDOM

Towing Vessel · Built 2000s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

AMERICAN FREEDOM is a 2003 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 24 inspections since 2003, most recently in April 2025, along with 6 casualty investigations between 2006 and 2025.

Records from 2003 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 8 April 2025.

Built: 2003
Last inspected: 8 April 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 24
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 6 investigations · 2006–2025
Inspected with: 16 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 8 April 2025

Recorded inspections24

…physical examinations5

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded18

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 12 calendar years (2003–2025)

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

1136956

8983014

WDC3284

606712

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-606712

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)72.0 ft × 30.0 ft × 10.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 144 / net 115

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderHOPE SERVICES INC · DULAC, LA, UNITED STATES · built 2003

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeShip

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portHOUMA, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 15 July 2026 · expires 31 August 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 it144 - Simplified, Gross Ton
115 - 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 · 16

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.

Inspection history · 24

8 April 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Morgan City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8108372

12 March 2025 COI Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8092743

24 June 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7723436

24 May 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7458119

24 September 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7065125

21 April 2020 Initial Certification · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6941799

5 March 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6970662

14 September 2017 Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6265668

7 May 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6140481

13 June 2012 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4342689

18 March 2012 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4269327

6 September 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4148845

18 June 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4078719

11 August 2010 Industry Initiated Exam · MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3821100

7 March 2007 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2884829

7 March 2007 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2884848

5 February 2007 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2867466

29 December 2006 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2848270

13 April 2006 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2624141

5 April 2006 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2630317

18 January 2006 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Morgan City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2570272

29 March 2005 MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2322207

11 December 2003 Security Plan Review - ASP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1963383

11 August 2003 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1886861

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 · 6

18 January 2006Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2570272

6 September 2011Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 4148845

18 March 2012Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 4269327

13 June 2012Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4342689

24 September 2020Routine · role: Sighted in Area · activity 7065125

8 April 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8108372

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.