AVA CLAIRE

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

AVA CLAIRE is a 2007 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 14 inspections since 2008, most recently in August 2024, along with 6 casualty investigations between 2008 and 2023.

Records from 2008 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 26 August 2024.

Built: 2007
Last inspected: 26 August 2024
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 14
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 6 investigations · 2008–2023
Inspected with: 6 other vessels
Also recorded as: 1 other name

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 26 August 2024

Recorded inspections14

…physical examinations4

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded8

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 10 calendar years (2008–2024)

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

1195054

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WDJ2338

870007

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-870007

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)80.6 ft × 30.0 ft × 11.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 266 / net 181

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)80.6 ft × 30.0 ft × 11.0 ft

ITC tonnagegross 301 / net 90

BuilderJOHN BLUDWORTH SHIPYARD LLC · CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, UNITED STATES · built 2007

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portBATON ROUGE, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 5 January 2026 · expires 31 January 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 it90 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
181 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
301 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
266 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross 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 · 6

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.

HFL 437 Tank Barge · MISLE 1360155 · 22 March 2021 · activity 7161049 HFL 439 Tank Barge · MISLE 1360156 · 22 March 2021 · activity 7161049 HFL 950 Tank Barge · MISLE 1234286 · 22 January 2018 · activity 6354943 PTC 9520 Tank Barge · MISLE 1316915 · 22 January 2018 · activity 6354943 BUFFALO 415 Tank Barge · MISLE 881737 · 15 January 2008 · activity 3131357 BUFFALO 416 Tank Barge · MISLE 881741 · 15 January 2008 · activity 3131357

Inspection history · 14

26 August 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7989375

5 March 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Houma · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7646510

25 July 2021 Initial Certification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7267445

2 July 2021 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7242240

22 March 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Lafayette · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7161049

14 May 2018 MTSA Verification · Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6456506

22 January 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6354943

20 March 2014 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4819946

21 August 2013 Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4692913

26 January 2013 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4535644

14 July 2012 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4379020

13 March 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3969552

7 July 2010 Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3788928

15 January 2008 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3131357

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

15 January 2008Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3131357

13 March 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · 1 injured · activity 3969552

26 January 2013Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4535644

22 January 2018Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6354943

22 March 2021Major Marine Casualty · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 7161049

5 March 2023Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7646510

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

SAN LUIS (2008–2013). 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.