VLB 8104

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

VLB 8104 is a 1981 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 1994, most recently in March 2009, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2009 and 2013.

Records from 1994 to 2013. Most recent: casualty investigation, 18 March 2013.

Built: 1981
Last inspected: 28 March 2009
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 2
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2009–2013
Inspected with: 10 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 17 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 28 March 2009

Recorded inspections2

…with no type recorded2

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 2 calendar years (1994–2009)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 2 inspections recorded in 1994 and 2009, and no deficiencies were written. This vessel does not appear elsewhere in the 1972–2026 record for its class. An absent record is not evidence of compliance, and it is not evidence of a problem — it is the absence of a record.

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

632856

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194817

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-194817

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it1124 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
1124 - 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 · 10

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.

ACBL 2045 Freight Barge · MISLE 161568 · 28 March 2009 · activity 3443819 ACBL 335X Freight Barge · MISLE 177923 · 28 March 2009 · activity 3443819 TRS 210B Freight Barge · MISLE 191331 · 28 March 2009 · activity 3443819 ACBL 224 Freight Barge · MISLE 211141 · 28 March 2009 · activity 3443819 MARK STAAB Towing Vessel · MISLE 212135 · 28 March 2009 · activity 3443819 ACBL 1268 Freight Barge · MISLE 111875 · 9 April 1994 · activity 156221 MISTER WAYNE Towing Vessel · MISLE 135549 · 9 April 1994 · activity 156221 ACBL 3076 Freight Barge · MISLE 149441 · 9 April 1994 · activity 156221 ACBL 3124 Freight Barge · MISLE 177966 · 9 April 1994 · activity 156221 VL 81434 Freight Barge · MISLE 211985 · 9 April 1994 · activity 156221

Inspection history · 2

28 March 2009 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 3443819

9 April 1994 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO MORGAN CITY · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 156221

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

28 March 2009Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 3443819

18 March 2013Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4551784

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.