L 344

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

L 344 is a 1991 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 1996, most recently in October 2012, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2012.

Records from 1996 to 2012. Most recent: inspection, 17 October 2012.

Built: 1991
Last inspected: 17 October 2012
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 2
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2012
Inspected with: 5 other vessels

Identity

968390

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354048

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-354048

Inspections, by type

…with no type recorded2

Years with a record 2 calendar years (1996–2012)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 2 inspections recorded in 1996 and 2012, and no deficiencies were written. This vessel does not appear elsewhere in the 1972–2026 record for its class. An absent record is not evidence of compliance, and it is not evidence of a problem — it is the absence of a record.

The 2 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 14 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.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it687 - Simplified, Gross Ton
687 - Simplified, 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.

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. Reports.

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.

JOHN F WALKER Towing Vessel · MISLE 139737 · 17 October 2012 · activity 4472374 ALOIS LUHR Towing Vessel · MISLE 253811 · 17 October 2012 · activity 4472374 L 232 Freight Barge · MISLE 354025 · 17 October 2012 · activity 4472374 BV-1095 Freight Barge · MISLE 664138 · 17 October 2012 · activity 4472374 MISS ROSLYN Towing Vessel · MISLE 169881 · 21 August 1996 · activity 116526

Inspection history · 2

17 October 2012 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Paducah · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4472374

21 August 1996 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 116526

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

17 October 2012Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · activity 4472374

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.