ART 196

Freight Barge · Barge class · Built 1980s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

ART 196 is a 1980 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 3 inspections since 1992, most recently in June 2002, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2002.

Records from 1992 to 2002. Most recent: inspection, 23 June 2002.

Built: 1980
Last inspected: 23 June 2002
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 3
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2002
Inspected with: 5 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 24 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.

Inspection record

Last inspected 23 June 2002

Recorded inspections3

…with no type recorded3

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 3 calendar years (1992–2002)

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

622260

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185332

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-185332

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it901 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
901 - 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. 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. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspected as a tow unit · 5

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.

STARFIRE Towing Vessel · MISLE 67624 · 23 June 2002 · activity 1637793 D DWAINE STEPHENS Towing Vessel · MISLE 146368 · 23 June 2002 · activity 1637793 SALLY ARCHER Towing Vessel · MISLE 126880 · 17 April 1998 · activity 179977 XL 337 Freight Barge · MISLE 170448 · 17 April 1998 · activity 179977 CAPT TONY ICE Towing Vessel · MISLE 118787 · 7 May 1992 · activity 87930

Inspection history · 3

23 June 2002 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSD QUAD CITIES · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1637793

17 April 1998 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 179977

7 May 1992 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO ST LOUIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 87930

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 · 1

23 June 2002Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 1637793

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.