WEEKS 256

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

WEEKS 256 is a 1985 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 27 inspections since 1985, most recently in July 2024, along with 11 deficiencies and 1 casualty investigation in 2021.

Records from 1985 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 9 July 2024.

Built: 1985
Last inspected: 9 July 2024
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 27
Deficiencies: 11 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2021
Inspected with: 5 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 9 July 2024

Recorded inspections27

…physical examinations14

…administrative events5

…with no type recorded8

Deficiencies 11 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 14 calendar years (1985–2024)

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

685131

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263035

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-263035

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it2255 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
2255 - 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

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 · 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. Towing vessels are barely present in the record before 1992, so tow-unit membership for activities older than that is recorded only partially.

NEPTUNE Towing Vessel · MISLE 371018 · 18 February 2021 · activity 7142223 MIKE AZZOLINO Towing Vessel · MISLE 183748 · 10 June 1997 · activity 154759 SW4000 Freight Barge · MISLE 72419 · 24 December 1994 · activity 142460 STONY PT Freight Barge · MISLE 294317 · 24 December 1994 · activity 142460 KATHERINE Towing Vessel · MISLE 177976 · 19 August 1991 · activity 59551

Inspection history · 27

9 July 2024 Load Line/Change of Employment

Administrative · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7953701

18 February 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7142223

10 June 1997 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO HAMPTON ROADS · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 154759

19 February 1997 Administrative

Administrative · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1456444

8 December 1995 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO WILMINGTON · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 673437

3 October 1995 COI Inspection

Physical examination · MSO WILMINGTON · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 873977

19 September 1995 Drydock Extension

Administrative · MSO WILMINGTON · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 1192157

24 December 1994 Type not recorded

No type recorded · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 142460

16 December 1994 Type not recorded

No type recorded · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 30859

9 November 1994 Re-Inspection

Physical examination · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1178207

10 November 1993 COI Inspection

Physical examination · MSO JACKSONVILLE · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 1159494

18 March 1993 Damage Survey

Physical examination · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1146247

18 March 1993 Hull Examination

Physical examination · MSO JACKSONVILLE · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 1164394

20 November 1992 Deficiency Check · Re-Inspection

Physical examination · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1133611

13 November 1991 COI Inspection

Physical examination · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1245761

23 September 1991 Administrative

Administrative · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1245490

19 August 1991 Type not recorded

No type recorded · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 59551

21 November 1990 Re-Inspection

Physical examination · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1239342

22 November 1989 Hull Examination

Physical examination · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 923179

14 November 1989 COI Inspection

Physical examination · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1233968

8 March 1988 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO JACKSONVILLE · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 1029486

14 January 1988 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO JACKSONVILLE · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 1328002

24 November 1987 COI Inspection

Physical examination · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1339086

6 February 1987 Deficiency Check

Physical examination · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1015057

16 January 1987 Re-Inspection

Physical examination · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1007639

26 March 1986 Persons In Addition to Crew

Administrative · ACTIVITIES NEW YORK · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 1293190

18 December 1985 Initial Certification · Initial Construction-Excluding Oversight

Physical examination · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 985664

Deficiency record · 11

Construction/Loadline

Issued 20 November 1992 Resolved

REPAINT FADED/WORN DRAFT MARKS ABOVE NO LOAD WATERLINE. TO BE COMPLETED TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE ATTENDING MARINE INSPECTOR.

Condition: Unknown
Due 7 December 1992
Resolved 7 December 1992

Construction/Loadline

Issued 20 November 1992 Resolved

IN #2 PORT VOID DRILL STOP, V/W, CRACK IN CARGO AREA (INNER) BULKHEAD IN WAY OF FRAME 3 AND 4 OR 7'10" AFT OF CENTER OF PORT MOORING CLEAT. TO BE COMPLETED TO THE SATISFACTION OF ATTENDING MARINE INSPECTOR.

Condition: Unknown
Due 7 December 1992
Resolved 7 December 1992

Navigation

Issued 20 November 1992 Resolved

PAINT BACKGROUND ON NAV LIGHT SUPPORTS FLAT BLACK. TO BE COMPLETED TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE ATTENDING MARINE INSPECTOR. _x001C_ _x001C_ _x001C_

Condition: Unknown
Due 7 December 1992
Resolved 7 December 1992

Construction/Loadline

Issued 20 November 1992 Resolved

IN #2 PORT VOID V/W CRACKED WELD IN WAY OF FRAME #15, TOP OF CARGO AREA (INNER) BULKHEAD. TO BE COMPLETED TO THE SATISFACTION OF ATTENDING MARINE INSPECTOR.

Condition: Unknown
Due 7 December 1992
Resolved 7 December 1992

Construction/Loadline

Issued 14 November 1989 Resolved

DEMONSTRATE PROPER OPERATION OF DIESEL ENGINE TO HYDRAULIC PUMP DRIVE.