VL 81273

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

VL 81273 is a 1981 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 5 inspections since 1993, most recently in October 2006, along with 1 operational control and 2 casualty investigations between 2005 and 2006.

Records from 1993 to 2006. Most recent: inspection, 3 October 2006.

Built: 1981
Last inspected: 3 October 2006
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 5
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2005–2006
Inspected with: 42 other vessels

Identity

628232

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190709

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-190709

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations1

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded3

Years with a record 3 calendar years (1993–2006)

The 5 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 20 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 it889 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
889 - 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.

Inspected as a tow unit · 42

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 · 5

3 October 2006 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Marine Safety Detachment Quad Cities · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2800053

2 July 2006 Damage Survey

Physical examination · Marine Safety Detachment Quad Cities · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2726465

2 July 2006 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Quad Cities · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2756054

14 November 2005 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2597866

23 November 1993 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 84787

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

14 November 2005Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2597866

2 July 2006Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · at L/D 14 · activity 2756054

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.