Bridge · from the US Coast Guard investigation record

HELENA BRIDGE

The vessels recorded in 7 Coast Guard casualty investigations naming this bridge, 2010–2023: 26 vessel mentions, 26 hulls with a page on Maury.

Every investigation naming this structure

Vessel, with role as recorded	Date	Classification	Structure status, as recorded	Property damage recorded	People
CHARLES REID PERRY Involved in a Marine Casualty MTC 0147B Involved in a Marine Casualty	2023-03-12	Routine	Undamaged - Operational	—	none recorded
EARL ETHERIDGE Involved in a Marine Casualty HD 127 Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty)	2021-03-28	Routine	Undamaged - Operational	$800	none recorded
ARDYCE RANDALL Involved in a Marine Casualty ART 35165 Involved in a Marine Casualty	2019-02-23	Routine	Damaged and Not Repaired - Operational	$25,000	none recorded
CYNTHIA G ESPER Involved in a Marine Casualty SCF 1204 Involved in a Marine Casualty WTC 3001 Involved in a Marine Casualty WTC 3010 Involved in a Marine Casualty WTC 3015 Involved in a Marine Casualty	2016-01-11	Routine · serious marine incident	Undamaged - Operational	$350,000	none recorded
HTCO 3002 Involved in a Marine Casualty MMI 612 Involved in a Marine Casualty BETHESDA Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty)	2011-03-18	Routine · serious marine incident	Undamaged - Operational	$439,000	none recorded
AEP 3392 Involved in a Marine Casualty AEP 7220 Involved in a Marine Casualty AEP 7513 Involved in a Marine Casualty BIG DADDY Involved in a Marine Casualty CHRISTOPHER M PARSONAGE Involved in a Marine Casualty DAVID SOLOMON Involved in a Marine Casualty MEM 5064 Involved in a Marine Casualty MEM 5079 Involved in a Marine Casualty MEM 94209 Involved in a Marine Casualty	2011-01-09	Major Marine Casualty · serious marine incident	Undamaged - Operational	$1,425,000	none recorded
AEP 3394 Involved in a Marine Casualty BLAKE DENTON Involved in a Marine Casualty LTD 123 Involved in a Marine Casualty	2010-11-04	Routine · serious marine incident	Undamaged - Operational	$300,000	none recorded

A vessel’s role is the Coast Guard’s word for how it was involved, and it is shown exactly as recorded: a vessel “sighted near” an incident is not a striking vessel, and involvement is not fault. Where an investigation records anyone dead, injured or missing, only the structured fields are shown and the narrative is withheld. Property damage is the total the investigation recorded, in dollars of the year, never adjusted. Vessel names link to the hull’s page where Maury publishes one; an unlinked name is a hull Maury holds and does not publish, or one it does not hold.

Investigations recorded, by year

Year	Investigations recorded
2010	1
2011	2
2016	1
2019	1
2021	1
2023	1

A count of investigation records that name this structure. It is not a rate: the Coast Guard’s record of incidents is denser in some years and districts than others (coverage), and the record for 1991 onward is the one Maury holds.

Identity

Recorded as

HELENA BRIDGE

Also recorded as

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Type

Bridge

Coast Guard unit

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

Maury structure id

str-30886512b3

One recorded name under one Coast Guard unit. A grouping by name may include more than one structure.

Federal bridge record

Not matched to a federal bridge record. 2 navigation-controlled NBI crossings within 2 km and neither the recorded name nor the distances single one out; not matched. Absence of a match is a fact about the matching rule, not about the structure.

What this page is not

A fact about a structure, not a judgement about it or about anyone who owns it. Maury publishes no score, rating or ranking for a structure, and no count or comparison for a bridge owner. A structure with no page has no recorded involvement in the ranges Maury holds; that is not “never struck”. Source: US Coast Guard Incident Investigation Reports through 13 September 2026; National Bridge Inventory where matched. Coverage and known gaps.