SJ 500

Freight Barge · Barge class · Built 1980s · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE)

SJ 500 is a 1982 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 6 inspections since 1997, most recently in January 2017, along with 3 casualty investigations between 2013 and 2016.

Records from 1997 to 2017. Most recent: inspection, 31 January 2017.

Built: 1982
Last inspected: 31 January 2017
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 6
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 3 investigations · 2013–2016
Inspected with: 7 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 9 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 31 January 2017

Recorded inspections6

…administrative events1

…with no type recorded5

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 5 calendar years (1997–2017)

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

651512

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210807

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-210807

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 INDUSTIES INC · BRAITHWAITE, LA, UNITED STATES · built 1982

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeBox

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portCHARLESTON, SC

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 18 November 2025 · expires 30 November 2026

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

Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

Every recorded inspection, 1972 to 2026 for this class, in one chronology · every deficiency, with system, dates and resolution · operational controls imposed and removed · every name this hull has been recorded under · the vessels it was inspected alongside, and when · how its record compares with hulls of similar age and size, as a fact about the population and never a judgement about this vessel.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

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Inspected as a tow unit · 7

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.

ISLAND TRADER Towing Vessel · MISLE 131096 · 17 March 2016 · activity 5835261 ISLAND TIDE Towing Vessel · MISLE 179162 · 17 March 2016 · activity 5835261 ISLAND TRADER Towing Vessel · MISLE 131096 · 5 February 2015 · activity 5161175 ROYAL ENGINEER Towing Vessel · MISLE 88403 · 29 November 2013 · activity 4769883 ROYAL ENGINEER Towing Vessel · MISLE 88403 · 17 September 2013 · activity 4722760 DMT 4003 Freight Barge · MISLE 206898 · 29 January 1997 · activity 53577 RON HUNTER Towing Vessel · MISLE 216213 · 29 January 1997 · activity 53577 DMT 4005 Freight Barge · MISLE 234979 · 29 January 1997 · activity 53577 WEEKS 105 Freight Barge · MISLE 237320 · 29 January 1997 · activity 53577

Inspection history · 6

31 January 2017 Load Line/Change of Employment

Administrative · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6080237

17 March 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Charleston · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 5835261

5 February 2015 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 5161175

29 November 2013 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 4769883

17 September 2013 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 4722760

29 January 1997 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO MEMPHIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 53577

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 · 3

17 September 2013Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4722760

29 November 2013Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4769883

17 March 2016Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 5835261

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.