VL 81281

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

VL 81281 is a 1981 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 3 inspections since 2002, most recently in September 2011, along with 3 casualty investigations between 2002 and 2011.

Records from 2002 to 2011. Most recent: inspection, 10 September 2011.

Built: 1981
Last inspected: 10 September 2011
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 3
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 3 investigations · 2002–2011
Inspected with: 5 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 15 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 10 September 2011

Recorded inspections3

…with no type recorded3

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 2 calendar years (2002–2011)

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

634274

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218051

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-218051

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it889 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
889 - 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 · 5

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.

KENNY EADS Towing Vessel · MISLE 177968 · 10 September 2011 · activity 4154333 WTT 807 Freight Barge · MISLE 193706 · 10 September 2011 · activity 4154333 MARK DULEY Towing Vessel · MISLE 86337 · 18 July 2011 · activity 4086117 ACBL 6048 Freight Barge · MISLE 184324 · 18 July 2011 · activity 4086117 CAPT RICKIE JOHNSON Towing Vessel · MISLE 139463 · 8 March 2002 · activity 1493331

Inspection history · 3

10 September 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4154333

18 July 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment St. Paul · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4086117

8 March 2002 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 1493331

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

8 March 2002Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 1493331

18 July 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4086117

10 September 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4154333

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.