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VLB 7953

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

VLB 7953 is a 1979 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 1 inspection in 1992.

Records in 1992. Most recent: inspection, 20 December 1992.

Built: 1979
Last inspected: 20 December 1992
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 1
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Inspected with: 6 other vessels

Identity

609995

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174128

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-174128

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 34 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 inspections1

…with no type recorded1

Years with a record 1 calendar year (1992)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 1 inspection recorded in 1992, 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 it696 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
696 - 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 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 · 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.

CRYSTAL D TAYLOR Towing Vessel · MISLE 89360 · 20 December 1992 · activity 120115 VL 7401 Freight Barge · MISLE 128284 · 20 December 1992 · activity 120115 K 407 Freight Barge · MISLE 155059 · 20 December 1992 · activity 120115 SCNO 8122 Freight Barge · MISLE 195414 · 20 December 1992 · activity 120115 ACBL 312 Freight Barge · MISLE 196272 · 20 December 1992 · activity 120115 LOB 132 Freight Barge · MISLE 391510 · 20 December 1992 · activity 120115

Inspection history · 1

20 December 1992 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 120115

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.