WGN 278

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

WGN 278 is a 1989 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 3 inspections since 1996, most recently in January 1999.

Records from 1996 to 1999. Most recent: inspection, 23 January 1999.

Built: 1989
Last inspected: 23 January 1999
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
Inspected with: 1 other vessel

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 27 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 23 January 1999

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 3 calendar years (1996–1999)

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

955289

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338502

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-338502

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it692 - Simplified, Net Ton
692 - Simplified, Gross 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. Its record holds only 2 of the seven kinds of material a report is built from: inspections, deficiencies, operational controls, tow-unit appearances, casualty records, dimensions and documentation. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspected as a tow unit · 1

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.

MISS ELLE Towing Vessel · MISLE 205829 · 23 January 1999 · activity 156406 MISS ELLE Towing Vessel · MISLE 205829 · 29 December 1997 · activity 175386 MISS ELLE Towing Vessel · MISLE 205829 · 30 November 1996 · activity 29895

Inspection history · 3

23 January 1999 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 156406

29 December 1997 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 175386

30 November 1996 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 29895

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.

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.