WGN 342

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

WGN 342 is a 1992 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 1996, most recently in January 2007, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2007.

Records from 1996 to 2007. Most recent: inspection, 23 January 2007.

Built: 1992
Last inspected: 23 January 2007
Documentation: Expired · 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 · 2007
Inspected with: 2 other vessels

Identity

983916

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373600

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-373600

Inspections, by type

…with no type recorded2

Years with a record 2 calendar years (1996–2007)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 2 inspections recorded in 1996 and 2007, 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 19 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

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)195.1 ft × 35.0 ft × 12.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 688 / net 688

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderHBC BARGE INC · BROWNSVILLE, PA, UNITED STATES · built 1992

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeBox

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portMOBILE, AL

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationExpired · issued 30 June 2004

Service, as the file records itFreight Barge

Hull formbarge (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it688 - Simplified, Net Ton
688 - Simplified, Gross Ton

Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 August 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.

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 · 2

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.

MS. MINERVA Towing Vessel · MISLE 107229 · 23 January 2007 · activity 2891461 TALLAPOOSA Towing Vessel · MISLE 114517 · 1 November 1996 · activity 46966

Inspection history · 2

23 January 2007 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 2891461

1 November 1996 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 46966

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

23 January 2007Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2891461

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.