SH 257

Freight Barge · Barge class · Built 2010s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

SH 257 is a 2014 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 12 inspections since 2014, most recently in August 2025, along with 1 deficiency.

Records from 2014 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 27 August 2025.

Built: 2014
Last inspected: 27 August 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 12
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

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 Barge class in Maury's sources begin in 1972.

Inspection record

Last inspected 27 August 2025

Recorded inspections12

…physical examinations12

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 10 calendar years (2014–2025)

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

1352639

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1322704

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1322704

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)195.0 ft × 35.0 ft × 12.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 687 / net 687

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderTRINITY MARINE PRODUCTS INC · CARUTHERSVILLE, MO, UNITED STATES · built 2014

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeBox

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portNEW ORLEANS, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 18 November 2025 · expires 31 December 2026

Service, as the file records itFreight Barge

Hull formbarge (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it687 - Simplified, Gross Ton
687 - 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, 1972 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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Inspection history · 12

27 August 2025 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8218470

19 September 2024 Internal Structural Exam · Drydock Exam · Examination of Repairs · COI Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8003543

7 November 2023 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7819359

11 January 2023 Periodic Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7618541

7 December 2021 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7361751

5 November 2020 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7089425

7 October 2019 Examination of Repairs · COI Inspection · Internal Structural Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6827109

18 January 2019 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6610467

22 March 2018 Periodic Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6374696

3 March 2017 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6097819

12 January 2016 Annual Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5795474

8 December 2014 Administrative Inspection · Internal Structural Exam · Drydock Exam · Initial Construction-Excluding Oversight · Initial Certification · Welding Related Inspections Qualification Testing

Physical examination · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5041167

Deficiency record · 1

Documentation › Certificates/Documents › Certificate of Inspection

Issued 22 March 2018 Resolved

Vessel found to be over the alloted timeframe for periodic inspection.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 22 March 2018
Resolved 22 March 2018
Resolution: Corrected on the spot with a periodic inspection.

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.