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RRS 7970

Freight Barge · Barge class · Built 1970s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · AMERICAN RIVER TRANSPORTATION CO. operator of record, 2017

RRS 7970 is a 1979 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 3 inspections since 2010, most recently in February 2017, along with 3 casualty investigations between 2010 and 2017.

Records from 2010 to 2017. Most recent: inspection, 11 February 2017.

Built: 1979
Last inspected: 11 February 2017
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 3
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 3 investigations · 2010–2017
Inspected with: 7 other vessels

Identity

615469

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179119

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-179119

Inspections, by type

…with no type recorded3

Years with a record 3 calendar years (2010–2017)

The 3 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 9 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 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 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.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it1009 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
1009 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 September 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.

Radio station licence

No FCC ship-station licence is recorded against this Official Number in the file of 6 September 2026. That is a fact about the licence file, not about the radio.

A report is not offered for this hull: It has no inspection history to report. A report is offered only when the record carries six or more inspections, a deficiency, or an operational control. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. Reports.

Inspected as a tow unit · 7

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.

RRS 8183 Freight Barge · MISLE 198469 · 11 February 2017 · activity 6096257 MISS ELLE Towing Vessel · MISLE 205829 · 11 February 2017 · activity 6096257 CRIMSON DUKE Towing Vessel · MISLE 125020 · 3 December 2015 · activity 5775549 ART 35716 Freight Barge · MISLE 1199290 · 3 December 2015 · activity 5775549 COOPERATIVE MARINER Towing Vessel · MISLE 190337 · 5 December 2010 · activity 3906273 ART 931B Tank Barge · MISLE 372689 · 5 December 2010 · activity 3906273 CBC 1323 Tank Barge · MISLE 934197 · 5 December 2010 · activity 3906273

Inspection history · 3

11 February 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Lower Mississippi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6096257

3 December 2015 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5775549

5 December 2010 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Upper Mississippi River · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3906273

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 · 3

5 December 2010Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3906273

3 December 2015Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · at THEBES RAILROAD BRIDGE · activity 5775549

11 February 2017Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 6096257

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, and the bridge, lock or dam the investigation names where it names one. 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.