VLX 7638

Freight Barge · Barge class · Built 1970s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

VLX 7638 is a 1976 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 3 inspections since 1998, most recently in May 2022, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2022.

Records from 1998 to 2022. Most recent: inspection, 28 May 2022.

Built: 1976
Last inspected: 28 May 2022
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 3
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2022
Inspected with: 9 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 4 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 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 28 May 2022

Recorded inspections3

…with no type recorded3

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 3 calendar years (1998–2022)

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

569075

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138242

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-138242

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it967 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
967 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 August 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.

Vessel history report

A report is not offered for this hull. It has no inspection history to report. A report is offered only when the record carries six or more inspections, a deficiency, or an operational control. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspected as a tow unit · 9

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.

AGS 257B Freight Barge · MISLE 22588 · 28 May 2022 · activity 7469794 MEM 1856 Freight Barge · MISLE 386352 · 28 May 2022 · activity 7469794 MTC310 Freight Barge · MISLE 490618 · 28 May 2022 · activity 7469794 AGS 172 Freight Barge · MISLE 928579 · 28 May 2022 · activity 7469794 MTC 1429B Freight Barge · MISLE 1082182 · 28 May 2022 · activity 7469794 MTC 1443 Freight Barge · MISLE 1096166 · 28 May 2022 · activity 7469794 VLB 75114 Freight Barge · MISLE 133985 · 24 March 2001 · activity 124443 PENNY ECKSTEIN Towing Vessel · MISLE 138586 · 24 March 2001 · activity 124443 LEO G. LUTGRING Towing Vessel · MISLE 160323 · 9 June 1998 · activity 154179

Inspection history · 3

28 May 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Upper Mississippi River · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7469794

24 March 2001 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO CHICAGO · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 124443

9 June 1998 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSD PEORIA · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 154179

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 · 1

28 May 2022Routine · role: Moored/Anchored in Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 7469794

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.

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.