ESSEX

Industrial Vessel · Miscellaneous Vessel class · Built 1970s · USCG East District (CGD-E)

ESSEX is a 1978 industrial vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 5 inspections since 2021, most recently in December 2024, along with 7 casualty investigations between 2006 and 2024.

Records from 2006 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 19 December 2024.

Built: 1978
Last inspected: 19 December 2024
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 5
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 7 investigations · 2006–2024
Inspected with: 6 other vessels

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 Miscellaneous Vessel class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 19 December 2024

Recorded inspections5

…with no type recorded5

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 3 calendar years (2021–2024)

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

608357

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172607

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-172607

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)140.1 ft × 36.1 ft × 9.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 614 / net 614

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderTIDEWATER EQUIPMENT CORP · CHESAPEAKE, VA, UNITED STATES · built 1978

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portNORFOLK, VA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 16 July 2026 · expires 31 July 2027

Service, as the file records itIndustrial Vessel

Hull formbarge (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it614 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
614 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), 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 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 · 6

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.

RANGER Towing Vessel · MISLE 925216 · 19 December 2024 · activity 8049787 PUSHER 10 Towing Vessel · MISLE 493033 · 30 October 2023 · activity 7848745 MSC MATTINA Freight Ship · MISLE 906143 · 30 October 2023 · activity 7848745 JULIANA Freight Ship · MISLE 1329089 · 30 October 2023 · activity 7848745 MISS JUDY Towing Vessel · MISLE 1646912 · 30 October 2023 · activity 7848745 IDLER BARGE 184 Industrial Vessel · MISLE 382476 · 29 April 2023 · activity 7684315 MISS JUDY Towing Vessel · MISLE 1646912 · 29 April 2023 · activity 7684315

Inspection history · 5

19 December 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8049787

30 October 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Lewes · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7848745

29 April 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7684315

6 October 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7327741

12 February 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7139858

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 · 7

28 September 2006Routine · role: Sighted in Area · activity 2790078

1 October 2012Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 4455859

19 February 2014Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 4809698

6 June 2014Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 4881960

29 April 2023Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 7684315

30 October 2023Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · 1 injured · activity 7848745

19 December 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8049787

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.