VL 81438

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

VL 81438 is a 1981 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 4 inspections since 1993, most recently in November 2006, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2006.

Records from 1993 to 2006. Most recent: inspection, 8 November 2006.

Built: 1981
Last inspected: 8 November 2006
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 4
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2006
Inspected with: 8 other vessels

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 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 8 November 2006

Recorded inspections4

…with no type recorded4

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

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

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

634301

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211994

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-211994

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it910 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
910 - 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 · 8

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.

ANITA EVE SHARP Towing Vessel · MISLE 249437 · 8 November 2006 · activity 2817628 ANITA EVE SHARP Towing Vessel · MISLE 249437 · 8 November 2006 · activity 2822083 ACL 06629 Freight Barge · MISLE 807232 · 8 November 2006 · activity 2822083 J. W. HERSHEY Towing Vessel · MISLE 87459 · 5 August 2000 · activity 144732 AGS 907 Freight Barge · MISLE 124238 · 15 November 1993 · activity 31105 RBZ 9 Freight Barge · MISLE 173859 · 15 November 1993 · activity 31105 CBL 325 Freight Barge · MISLE 191052 · 15 November 1993 · activity 31105 BRUCE L. HAHN Towing Vessel · MISLE 197054 · 15 November 1993 · activity 31105 CGB 442B Freight Barge · MISLE 201061 · 15 November 1993 · activity 31105

Inspection history · 4

8 November 2006 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2817628

8 November 2006 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2822083

5 August 2000 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO ST LOUIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 144732

15 November 1993 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO MEMPHIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 31105

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 · 1

8 November 2006Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 injured · activity 2822083

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.