VLX 7748

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

VLX 7748 is a 1977 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 1997, most recently in June 2002, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2002.

Records from 1997 to 2002. Most recent: inspection, 17 June 2002.

Built: 1977
Last inspected: 17 June 2002
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
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2002
Inspected with: 4 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 24 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 17 June 2002

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 (1997–2002)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 2 inspections recorded in 1997 and 2002, 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

581069

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148393

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-148393

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it952 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
952 - 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 · 4

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.

OLIVIA H Towing Vessel · MISLE 95167 · 17 June 2002 · activity 1651462 AT 184 Freight Barge · MISLE 134116 · 17 June 2002 · activity 1651462 LEWIS B STRAIT Towing Vessel · MISLE 154856 · 17 June 2002 · activity 1651462 LARRY DRUMMOND Towing Vessel · MISLE 99281 · 15 February 1997 · activity 30899

Inspection history · 2

17 June 2002 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO ST LOUIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1651462

15 February 1997 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSD PEORIA · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 30899

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

17 June 2002Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 1651462

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.