FRANZ VON RIEDEL

Towing Vessel · Built 1950s · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE)

FRANZ VON RIEDEL is a 1957 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 7 inspections since 1997, most recently in May 2011, along with 3 deficiencies.

Records from 1997 to 2011. Most recent: inspection, 16 May 2011.

Built: 1957
Last inspected: 16 May 2011
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 7
Deficiencies: 3 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Inspected with: 2 other vessels

Identity

US Official No.

274950

IMO number

6506214 View on MarineTraffic leaves Maury; a third-party site, nothing from it is stored here

Call sign

WJ5164

MISLE id

73426

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

—

Maury page id

psix-73426

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations2

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded3

Years with a record 5 calendar years (1997–2011)

The 7 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.

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 15 years ago. Maury shows what the Coast Guard recorded, not whether the vessel has been inspected since, is still in service, or what condition it is in. 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

Tonnage as PSIX records it114 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
167 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 September 2026 as served by NOAA Fisheries, so no documentation record is shown. Absence from that file is a fact about the file, not about the hull.

Radio station licence

WJ5164MMSI not assigned · cancelled · compulsorily equipped · granted 17 April 1998, cancelled 16 April 2008 · licensed under a name not among this hull’s recorded names (not shown)

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 · 2

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.

KTC 50 Tank Barge · MISLE 47927 · 15 January 1998 · activity 40872 BUCHANAN 5 Towing Vessel · MISLE 206884 · 15 January 1998 · activity 40872

Inspection history · 7

16 May 2011 Administration

Administrative · Sector Miami · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 4227528

30 December 2003 Security Plan Review - ASP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 1973156

1 November 2001 Uninspected Towing Vessel

Physical examination · MSO CHARLESTON · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 1075844

10 July 2001 Uninspected Towing Vessel

Physical examination · MSO CHARLESTON · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 1067897

15 January 1998 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HAMPTON ROADS · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 40872

15 January 1998 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HAMPTON ROADS · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 231138

16 May 1997 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO CHARLESTON · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 1092208

Deficiency record · 3

Construction/Loadline

Issued 16 May 1997 Resolved

REPAIR DOGS TO STBD E/R ACCESS WTD.

Condition: Unknown
Due 16 May 1997
Resolved 16 May 1997

Electrical

Issued 16 May 1997 Resolved

REMOVE OIL SOAKED LAGGING ON FWD GENERATOR AND CLEAN EXHAUST MANIFOLD.

Condition: Unknown
Due 16 May 1997
Resolved 16 May 1997

Construction/Loadline

Issued 16 May 1997 Resolved

REPLACE MISSING CLOSURE DEVICES ON ALL PORTLIGHTS.

Condition: Unknown
Due 16 May 1997
Resolved 16 May 1997

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.