ART 254B

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

ART 254B is a 1978 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 1994, most recently in August 2004, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2004.

Records from 1994 to 2004. Most recent: inspection, 22 August 2004.

Built: 1978
Last inspected: 22 August 2004
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 · 2004
Inspected with: 7 other vessels

Identity

595616

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161212

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-161212

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 22 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.

Inspections, by type

Recorded inspections2

…with no type recorded2

Years with a record 2 calendar years (1994–2004)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 2 inspections recorded in 1994 and 2004, 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. The counts in the strip above are the same counts; this table splits the inspections by the kind of activity 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.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it727 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
727 - 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 · 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.

AT 622B Freight Barge · MISLE 118148 · 22 August 2004 · activity 2182077 COOPERATIVE SPIRIT Towing Vessel · MISLE 138371 · 22 August 2004 · activity 2182077 RRS 8013 Freight Barge · MISLE 189494 · 22 August 2004 · activity 2182077 MARY EVELYN Towing Vessel · MISLE 204115 · 22 August 2004 · activity 2182077 ATM 2017 Freight Barge · MISLE 234218 · 22 August 2004 · activity 2182077 ART 44011 Freight Barge · MISLE 722020 · 22 August 2004 · activity 2182077 CORAL DAWN Towing Vessel · MISLE 95132 · 24 January 1994 · activity 59032

Inspection history · 2

22 August 2004 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Greenville · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2182077

24 January 1994 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSD PEORIA · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 59032

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

22 August 2004Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2182077

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.