EMS 3053

Tank Barge · Barge class · Built 2020s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

EMS 3053 is a 2023 tank barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 4 inspections since 2023, most recently in December 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 2 casualty investigations between 2023 and 2024.

Records from 2023 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 10 December 2025.

Built: 2023
Last inspected: 10 December 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 4
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2023–2024
Inspected with: 3 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 Barge class in Maury's sources begin in 1972.

Inspection record

Last inspected 10 December 2025

Recorded inspections4

…physical examinations2

…with no type recorded2

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 3 calendar years (2023–2025)

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

1333504

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1766356

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-1766356

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)297.5 ft × 54.0 ft × 12.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 1,619 / net 1,619

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderSOUTHWEST SHIPYARD LP · GALVESTON, TX, UNITED STATES · built 2023

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeBox

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portHOUMA, LA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 20 November 2025 · expires 30 November 2026

Service, as the file records itTank Barge

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

Tonnage as PSIX records it1619 - Simplified, Net Ton
1619 - Simplified, Gross 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

Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

Every recorded inspection, 1972 to 2026 for this class, in one chronology · every deficiency, with system, dates and resolution · operational controls imposed and removed · every name this hull has been recorded under · the vessels it was inspected alongside, and when · how its record compares with hulls of similar age and size, as a fact about the population and never a judgement about this vessel.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

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Inspected as a tow unit · 3

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.

LYDIA Towing Vessel · MISLE 417733 · 3 August 2024 · activity 7976258 EMS 3035 Tank Barge · MISLE 874576 · 3 August 2024 · activity 7976258 MR BILL Towing Vessel · MISLE 134862 · 18 October 2023 · activity 7818851

Inspection history · 4

10 December 2025 Examination of Repairs · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8280335

3 August 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Lafayette · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7976258

18 October 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7818851

11 August 2023 Construction Oversight · Administrative Inspection · COI Inspection

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7765728

Deficiency record · 1

13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Auxiliary engine

Issued 11 December 2023 Resolved

Any tank vessel which is equipped with an internal combustion engine driven cargo pump on the weather deck shall be provided with a minimum of one remote manual shutdown station, conspicuously marked, and located at the midpoint of such vessel, or 100 feet from the engine, whichever is the more practical. The remote quick acting manual shutdown shall be installed on the engine so as to provide a quick and effective means of stopping the engine (such as by cutting off the intake air). Vessel Representative was unable to demonstrate an effective means to stop the engine. Permanent repairs must be made to the satisfaction of a Coast Guard Marine Inspector. Restricted from operating prime mover until verified by Coast Guard Marine Inspector. 46 CFR 32.50-35

Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 12 December 2023
Resolution: Retested satisfactorily on 12DEC2023.

Casualty record · 2

18 October 2023Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7818851

3 August 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7976258

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.