CMS 438

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

CMS 438 is a 1978 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 1 inspection in 2004, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2004.

Records in 2004. Most recent: inspection, 21 March 2004.

Built: 1978
Last inspected: 21 March 2004
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 1
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2004
Inspected with: 1 other vessel

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.

Inspection record

Last inspected 21 March 2004

Recorded inspections1

…with no type recorded1

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 1 calendar year (2004)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 1 inspection recorded in 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. 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

601820

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166734

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-166734

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)110.1 ft × 45.0 ft × 7.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 291 / net 291

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderBEGERON INDUSTRIES INC · PEARLINGTON, MS, UNITED STATES · built 1978

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeBox

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portNEW ORLEANS, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry, non-fishing vessel

DocumentationValid · issued 15 September 2025 · expires 30 September 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 it291 - Simplified, Gross Ton
291 - 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

A report is not offered for this hull. Its Coast Guard record spans fewer than two calendar years. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspected as a tow unit · 1

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.

SALLY CATHERINE Towing Vessel · MISLE 183758 · 21 March 2004 · activity 2044064

Inspection history · 1

21 March 2004 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Panama City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2044064

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

21 March 2004Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2044064

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.