SJ 163

Freight Barge · Barge class · Built 1980s · USCG East District (CGD-E)

SJ 163 is a 1982 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 5 inspections since 1997, most recently in April 2025, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2005 and 2025.

Records from 1997 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 1 April 2025.

Built: 1982
Last inspected: 1 April 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 5
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2005–2025
Inspected with: 3 other vessels

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 1 April 2025

Recorded inspections5

…with no type recorded5

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 4 calendar years (1997–2025)

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

651510

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210780

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-210780

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)260.0 ft × 52.5 ft × 12.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 1,375 / net 1,375

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderBERGERON INDUSTRIES INC · BRAITHWAITE, LA, UNITED STATES · built 1982

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeBox

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portNORFOLK, VA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 17 February 2026 · expires 28 February 2027

Service, as the file records itFreight Barge

Hull formbarge (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it1375 - Simplified, Gross Ton
1375 - Simplified, Net Ton

Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 August 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.

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 · 3

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.

NO 16 Tank Barge · MISLE 869615 · 1 April 2025 · activity 8167286 BRIDGE BUILDER XII Towing Vessel · MISLE 91697 · 14 January 2005 · activity 2277786 CAPTAIN JAMES MCWILLIAMS Towing Vessel · MISLE 209966 · 24 March 1997 · activity 150231

Inspection history · 5

1 April 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8167286

14 January 2005 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HAMPTON ROADS · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 2277786

18 April 2001 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO JACKSONVILLE · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 1062326

19 January 2001 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1056560

24 March 1997 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO NEW ORLEANS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 150231

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 January 2005Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2277786

1 April 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8167286

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.