RRS 7961B

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

RRS 7961B is a 1979 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 6 inspections since 1994, most recently in June 2016, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2008 and 2016.

Records from 1994 to 2016. Most recent: inspection, 15 June 2016.

Built: 1979
Last inspected: 15 June 2016
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 6
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2008–2016
Inspected with: 74 other vessels

Identity

612488

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176382

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-176382

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 10 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 inspections6

…physical examinations1

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded3

Years with a record 4 calendar years (1994–2016)

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 it729 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton
729 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross 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

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Inspected as a tow unit · 74

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.

Inspection history · 6

15 June 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment St. Paul · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5909139

12 March 2008 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Upper Mississippi River · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3163300

20 July 2005 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2433044

18 April 2005 MTSA Verification

Physical examination · MSO ST LOUIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2336537

23 March 2005 Security Plan Review - ASP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2317332

21 April 1994 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSD QUAD CITIES · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 106110

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 · 2

12 March 2008Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3163300

15 June 2016Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 5909139

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.