MELODY GOLDING

Towing Vessel · Built 2000s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Other hulls named MELODY GOLDING

MELODY GOLDING is a 2008 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 13 inspections since 2008, most recently in December 2024, along with 4 casualty investigations between 2014 and 2021.

Records from 2008 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 23 December 2024.

Built: 2008
Last inspected: 23 December 2024
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 13
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 4 investigations · 2014–2021
Inspected with: 40 other vessels

Identity

1214609

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WDE6571

972234

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

367381930

Maury page id

psix-972234

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations6

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded5

Years with a record 9 calendar years (2008–2024)

The 13 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.

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

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)109.9 ft × 32.0 ft × 10.3 ft

Registered tonnagegross 376 / net 266

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)109.9 ft × 32.0 ft × 10.3 ft

ITC tonnagegross 477 / net 143

BuilderRAYMOND & ASSOCIATES LLC · BAYOU LA BATRE, AL, UNITED STATES · built 2008

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeNot recorded

Hull configurationNot recorded

Hailing portVICKSBURG, MS

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 12 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 it376 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
477 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
266 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
143 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton

Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 September 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.

Radio station licence

WDE6571MMSI 367381930 · active · compulsorily equipped · granted 4 August 2018, expires 24 October 2028

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 · 40

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 · 13

23 December 2024 COI Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8050940

16 December 2024 TPO Audit

Administrative · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8076267

2 September 2021 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7332444

20 February 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7149114

17 February 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7143292

27 February 2020 Initial Certification

Physical examination · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6921880

20 February 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6357864

5 May 2016 Administration · MTSA Verification · Industry Initiated Exam · DAPI Audit

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5885834

7 April 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5848945

21 April 2014 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4864703

22 April 2013 Industry Initiated Exam · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4575704

11 February 2010 Administration · Industry Initiated Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3682386

5 December 2008 MTSA Verification

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3374766

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 · 4

21 April 2014Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4864703

7 April 2016Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · at THEBES RAILROAD BRIDGE · activity 5848945

20 February 2018Routine · role: Sighted in Area · activity 6357864

17 February 2021Routine · role: Sighted in Area · activity 7143292

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, and the bridge, lock or dam the investigation names where it names one. 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.