MTC 256B

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

MTC 256B is a 1992 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 2011, most recently in September 2014, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2011.

Records from 2011 to 2014. Most recent: inspection, 28 September 2014.

Built: 1992
Last inspected: 28 September 2014
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 · 2011
Inspected with: 16 other vessels

Identity

984519

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374462

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-374462

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 12 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.

Inspections, by type

Recorded inspections2

…with no type recorded2

Years with a record 2 calendar years (2011–2014)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 2 inspections recorded in 2011 and 2014, 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.

Every line above is a count of records the US Coast Guard wrote, or a date it recorded. The counts in the strip above are the same counts; this table splits the inspections by the kind of activity 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.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it705 - Simplified, Net Ton
705 - 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. 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. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspected as a tow unit · 16

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.

MTC 232B Freight Barge · MISLE 372223 · 28 September 2014 · activity 4999889 MTC 233B Freight Barge · MISLE 372224 · 28 September 2014 · activity 4999889 MTC 0109 Freight Barge · MISLE 821843 · 28 September 2014 · activity 4999889 MTC 0110 Freight Barge · MISLE 821844 · 28 September 2014 · activity 4999889 FATHER PAT Towing Vessel · MISLE 1163616 · 28 September 2014 · activity 4999889 MTC 802 B Freight Barge · MISLE 1166010 · 28 September 2014 · activity 4999889 CHATTIE SUE SMITH Towing Vessel · MISLE 81910 · 23 July 2011 · activity 4097456 BUNGE 231 B Freight Barge · MISLE 136103 · 23 July 2011 · activity 4097456 BUNGE 483 Freight Barge · MISLE 176627 · 23 July 2011 · activity 4097456 KELLY RAE ERICKSON Towing Vessel · MISLE 242991 · 23 July 2011 · activity 4097456 BUNGE 860B Freight Barge · MISLE 376994 · 23 July 2011 · activity 4097456 MTC339B Freight Barge · MISLE 490639 · 23 July 2011 · activity 4097456 SCF 23100 Freight Barge · MISLE 609642 · 23 July 2011 · activity 4097456 SCF 23118 Freight Barge · MISLE 613450 · 23 July 2011 · activity 4097456 SCF 24348 Freight Barge · MISLE 1142690 · 23 July 2011 · activity 4097456 SCF 24341 Freight Barge · MISLE 1142691 · 23 July 2011 · activity 4097456

Inspection history · 2

28 September 2014 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4999889

23 July 2011 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Upper Mississippi River · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 4097456

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 July 2011Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · 1 injured · activity 4097456

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.