RF 228

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

RF 228 is a 1977 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 1995, most recently in November 2000.

Records from 1995 to 2000. Most recent: inspection, 13 November 2000.

Built: 1977
Last inspected: 13 November 2000
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 2
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Inspected with: 7 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 26 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 13 November 2000

Recorded inspections2

…with no type recorded2

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 2 calendar years (1995–2000)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 2 inspections recorded in 1995 and 2000, and no deficiencies were written. This vessel does not appear elsewhere in the 1972–2026 record for its class. An absent record is not evidence of compliance, and it is not evidence of a problem — it is the absence of a record.

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

580593

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147972

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-147972

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it679 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
679 - 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. Its record holds only 2 of the seven kinds of material a report is built from: inspections, deficiencies, operational controls, tow-unit appearances, casualty records, dimensions and documentation. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspected as a tow unit · 7

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.

LARRY Y. STRAIN Towing Vessel · MISLE 186417 · 13 November 2000 · activity 123948 PAUL KLAUSEN Towing Vessel · MISLE 79224 · 18 April 1995 · activity 185106 CCT 21 Freight Barge · MISLE 163864 · 18 April 1995 · activity 185106 CCT 52 Freight Barge · MISLE 171129 · 18 April 1995 · activity 185106 OR 1054 Freight Barge · MISLE 206728 · 18 April 1995 · activity 185106 OR 5104 Freight Barge · MISLE 302434 · 18 April 1995 · activity 185106 OR 5220 Freight Barge · MISLE 342797 · 18 April 1995 · activity 185106

Inspection history · 2

13 November 2000 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO MEMPHIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 123948

18 April 1995 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 185106

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.

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.