RM 53B

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

RM 53B is a 1981 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 2001, most recently in April 2005, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2001 and 2005.

Records from 2001 to 2005. Most recent: inspection, 5 April 2005.

Built: 1981
Last inspected: 5 April 2005
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 2
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2001–2005
Inspected with: 18 other vessels

Identity

634538

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196283

Flag

UNITED STATES

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-196283

Inspections, by type

…with no type recorded2

Years with a record 2 calendar years (2001–2005)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 2 inspections recorded in 2001 and 2005, 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.

The 2 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 21 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 it1033 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
1033 - 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 · 18

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 · 2

5 April 2005 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2338052

20 November 2001 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 113723

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

20 November 2001Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 113723

5 April 2005Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · at SMITHLAND L & D BRDG · activity 2338052

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.