VLB 9131

Freight Barge · Barge class · Built 1990s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

VLB 9131 is a 1990 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 6 inspections since 1995, most recently in April 2020, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2007 and 2020.

Records from 1995 to 2020. Most recent: inspection, 27 April 2020.

Built: 1990
Last inspected: 27 April 2020
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 6
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2007–2020
Inspected with: 14 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 6 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 27 April 2020

Recorded inspections6

…physical examinations1

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded3

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (1995–2020)

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

967580

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353183

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-353183

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it600 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
802 - Convention (Subpart B), 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

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 · 14

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.

CAPT. BUCK LAY Towing Vessel · MISLE 204165 · 27 April 2020 · activity 6944692 AEP 3154 Freight Barge · MISLE 434762 · 27 April 2020 · activity 6944692 MEM 2068 Freight Barge · MISLE 469523 · 27 April 2020 · activity 6944692 ACL 06110 Freight Barge · MISLE 863817 · 27 April 2020 · activity 6944692 AEP 7020 Freight Barge · MISLE 939085 · 27 April 2020 · activity 6944692 PML 977 Freight Barge · MISLE 1604799 · 27 April 2020 · activity 6944692 PENNY ECKSTEIN Towing Vessel · MISLE 138586 · 21 June 2007 · activity 2969126 OLIVIA C Towing Vessel · MISLE 143126 · 21 June 2007 · activity 2969126 TTBL 4118 Freight Barge · MISLE 196667 · 21 June 2007 · activity 2969126 WTT 868 Freight Barge · MISLE 199966 · 21 June 2007 · activity 2969126 CAPT MICHAEL D. COLLINS Towing Vessel · MISLE 369365 · 21 June 2007 · activity 2969126 ACL 99012 Freight Barge · MISLE 487093 · 21 June 2007 · activity 2969126 SG 204 Freight Barge · MISLE 904485 · 21 June 2007 · activity 2969126 RICH MCCARTY Towing Vessel · MISLE 150967 · 6 November 1995 · activity 123051

Inspection history · 6

27 April 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Vicksburg · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6944692

12 October 2016 Load Line/Change of Employment

Administrative · Marine Safety Unit Chicago · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 6021217

21 June 2007 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Greenville · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2969126

3 January 2006 MTSA Verification

Physical examination · MSO ST LOUIS · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2560045

7 December 2004 Security Plan Review - ASP

Administrative · Marine Safety Center (MSC) · Activity 2318692

6 November 1995 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSD QUAD CITIES · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 123051

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 · 2

21 June 2007Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2969126

27 April 2020Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6944692

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.