MEM 238

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

MEM 238 is a 1994 freight barge. The Coast Guard has recorded 3 inspections since 1997, most recently in December 2024, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2024.

Records from 1997 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 6 December 2024.

Built: 1994
Last inspected: 6 December 2024
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 3
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2024
Inspected with: 8 other vessels

Identity

999144

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398964

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-398964

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 inspections3

…with no type recorded3

Years with a record 3 calendar years (1997–2024)

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

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)200.0 ft × 35.0 ft × 13.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 764 / net 764

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderJEFFBOAT DIV ACMSC · JEFFERSONVILLE IN, UNITED STATES · built 1994

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeBox

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portST LOUIS, MO

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted

DocumentationValid · issued 13 May 2026 · expires 31 May 2027

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 it764 - Simplified, Gross Ton
764 - Simplified, Net 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.

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 · 8

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.

CAPTAIN JEFFREY II Passenger (Inspected) · MISLE 21239 · 6 December 2024 · activity 8069434 CAPTAIN JOEY Passenger (Inspected) · MISLE 53757 · 6 December 2024 · activity 8069434 MEM 5149 Freight Barge · MISLE 477763 · 6 December 2024 · activity 8069434 PATSY COLEMAN Towing Vessel · MISLE 87614 · 9 March 2003 · activity 1758281 AARON CHARLES MCKINNEY Towing Vessel · MISLE 208458 · 1 May 1997 · activity 102794 ACL 9229 Freight Barge · MISLE 378517 · 1 May 1997 · activity 102794 ACL 9287B Freight Barge · MISLE 381470 · 1 May 1997 · activity 102794 ACL 9292B Freight Barge · MISLE 381476 · 1 May 1997 · activity 102794

Inspection history · 3

6 December 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8069434

9 March 2003 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSO CHICAGO · USCG Great Lakes District (CGD-GL) · Activity 1758281

1 May 1997 Type not recorded

No type recorded · MSU GALVESTON · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 102794

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

6 December 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 2 injured · activity 8069434

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.